Hell Is Empty: A Longmire Mystery

Craig Johnson

Jun 2011 · A Longmire Mystery Book 7 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Walt Longmire faces an icy hell in this New York Times bestseller from the author of Land of Wolves

Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaining order in Wyoming's Absaroka County for more than thirty years, but in this riveting seventh outing, he is pushed to his limits.

Raynaud Shade, an adopted Crow Indian rumored to be one of the country's most dangerous sociopaths, has just confessed to murdering a boy ten years ago and burying him deep within the Bighorn Mountains. Walt is asked to transport Shade through a blizzard to the site, but what begins as a typical criminal transport turns personal when the veteran lawman learns that he knows the dead boy's family. Guided only by Indian mysticism and a battered paperback of Dante's Inferno, Walt braves the icy hell of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, cheating death to ensure that justice--both civil and spiritual--is served.  

Ratings and reviews

Powerful and gripping! A story beginning in a simple callout to a long descent by ascending into a frozen hell with Dante's Inferno as escort. Great descriptions of scenery, people, animals and imagery. Terrific plotlines and terrifying horrors. If you've even been in backwoods Wyoming, you'll deeply feel the mountains and their beckoning. Though difficult to put this book down, read carefully, soak it into your psyche; then, touch reality before you return only to be haunted.

I love Craig Johnson's Longmire series! This book was/is my favorite. Great read!

WOW! I thought this was a very cofusing (but in a good way!) story...who is dead...who is alive...who is sane...who is a bit insane... Good story and it makes one think about when one dies. I'm vey much hooked!!

About the author

Craig Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.