Craig Johnson
With Hell Is Empty, Craig Johnson delivers an action-packed Western thriller, rife with evocative setting and literary allusion. This seventh novel featuring wise-cracking Sheriff Walt Longmire creeps stealthily out of the corral with an increasingly tense setup. (The Boston Globe)
Two interesting bits about this time around with Longmire:
1) The entire action of the book takes place in less than 48 hours. That's slightly unusual.
2) At one point in the sheriff's searching for an escaped prisoner, he says this: "It was about a mile up to the Battle Park cutoff, where I assumed they'd turn west and try for the Hyattville Road that led toward the tiny town and eventually to Manderson, which was situated alongside the Big Horn River. Then what - north to Basin or south to Worland?" That decision-making point of Manderson? That's where my brother-in-law lives...on a bluff overlooking the Big Horn River and just across the street from the fire station where he's the chief.
First line: "Didn't your mother ever tell you not to talk with your mouth full?"
Page 56/5th line: "I'll take a sweep between here and Boulder Park to make sure the convicts are not in a ditch."
Last line: I held the ring up where they could all see it and then turned it sideways so that I could look through it and focus on the platinum strip of dying light at the very top of Cloud Peak.
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