Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson's straight-talking lawman, Sheriff Walt Longmire, first knocked readers dead in the award-winning short story "Old Indian Trick." Since then, the sheriff has captured the hearts of mystery lovers with ten bestselling Longmire novels and the hit A&E series LONGMIRE. Now, for the first time, 12 short stories featuring an off-duty Longmire are collected in a single volume. With a glimpse into Walt's past, these stories are by turns hilarious and suspenseful. The sheriff finds himself mistaken for a deity, then elbowed into putting on a show as the Ghost of Christmas Past, and then trapped in a Porta Potty. Wait for Signs is a welcome addition to any Longmire fan's shelf and a wonderful way to introduce new readers to the fictional world of Absaroka County, Wyoming.
I normally wouldn't read two Longmire books in a row without tossing in some Rat Pack Mystery or Brit in the FBI between them, but this collection of short stories perfectly fit with a flight to Michigan for a weekend conference and the drive back with Beloved. By now, it is clear that I am a fan of Johnson's Longmire output, and this collection does not tarnish that in the least. There was even the added bonus of learning the real legend behind the naming of Wyoming's Crazy Woman Creek, which I have driven by countless times in my journeys to and fro involving visiting my in-laws.
First Line: It's hard to argue with an old Indian or his tricks.
Page 56 / Line 5: "Maybe."
A Good Line from Somewhere in the Middle: The prison psychologist intimated that it was all a question of comparison, but that if you sat a bag of groceries next to Travis, the groceries would get into Stanford before he would.
Last Line: I drove the entire forty miles without cracking a smile -- a personal best.
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