His Alex McKnight series, beginning with A Cold Day in Paradise is worth reading.Originally Posted by Cheap Shot
His Alex McKnight series, beginning with A Cold Day in Paradise is worth reading.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Daughter of the Morning Star
The book is laced with fictional Indian mysticism (at least, it doesn't come up on a search). The way the ending is set up, it could be the last book in the series. Guess we'll have to see.
But dammit, is Craig Johnson the only person in Wyoming who has never seen or shot a 19111? It sure reads like it. After the umptteenth mention of Walt's "large-framed Colt", I wanted to throw the book across the room. Except it's from the library and all library books get treated with respect.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
An intriguing read...
There's nothing civil about this war.
You have to go some to beat some of the stuff Lee Child puts out in his Jack Reacher novels.
And, according to his page, Johnson has another book due out September 2022:
Hell and Back
Picking up where Daughter of the Morning Star left off, the next Longmire novel finds the sheriff digging further into the mysteries of "the wandering without"--a mythical all-knowing spiritual being that devours souls.
Walt thinks he might find the answers he's looking for among the ruins of an old Native American boarding school--an institution designed to strip Native children of their heritage. He has been haunted by the image of the Fort Pratt Industrial Indian Training School ever since he first saw a faded postcard picturing a hundred boys in uniform, in front of a large, ominous building--a postcard that was given to him by Jimmy Lane, the father of Jeanie One Moon.
After Walt's initial investigation into Jeanie's disappearance yielded no satisfying conclusions, Walt has to confront the fact that he may be dealing with an adversary unlike any he has ever faced before.
Adding nothing to the conversation since 2015....
I quit reading the Reacher series a long time ago. The books became "same shit, different town".
That's going to be a "get this from the town library" book. I was happy that Johnson had wrapped up the "sheriff from one of the least populated counties in America takes on a international assassin" arc, but this one is pretty whacky.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Like how big of a shit-magnet can one guy be, lol?
Reminds me of my late father-in-law who used to say if he ever saw Angela Lansbury he'd run like hell because somebody was about to get murdered.
To make it work in my mind the character either has to be a detective who people know to bring their troubles to, or an investigator who gets sent to where some shit has already happened. Having a person who just randomly wanders around continuously stumbling into clusterfucks just doesn't make sense... Unless that's his superpower.
Which could make for a fun series if the author has a great sense of humor.
" La rose est sans pourquoi, elle fleurit parce qu’elle fleurit ; Elle n’a souci d’elle-même, ne demande pas si on la voit. » Angelus Silesius
"There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers." Paul Muad'dib
"C'mon, man!"
There's nothing civil about this war.
A terrific cellphone app would sound an alarm for the approach of tornados, floods, hurricanes, wildfires and Jack Reacher.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Somehow, I'm not sure the author of that story has such a great sense of humor ... existential dread with a dollop of surrealism is as far as I'll go.
"C'mon, man!"
" La rose est sans pourquoi, elle fleurit parce qu’elle fleurit ; Elle n’a souci d’elle-même, ne demande pas si on la voit. » Angelus Silesius
"There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers." Paul Muad'dib
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