Hell Is Empty - Craig Johnson

Hell Is Empty

By Craig Johnson

  • Release Date: 2011-06-02
  • Genre: Police Procedural
Score: 4.5
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Description

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.  

Reviews

  • Just a great read

    5
    By Jim in Yorba Linda
    To anyone familiar with Mr. Johnson’s Longmire series, he is as much a poet as a storyteller. He weaves descriptions the Bighorn mountains, the spirituality of the native Americans with his own internal dance with the spirits of life into a blanket that will warm you up to the point you will not be able to put it down. His best yet. Loved it.

  • The best of the series

    5
    By sh60bpilot
    This book is the best of the series. It has depth, pacing, characters to cheer for and the best villain of the series. The dialog is superb. And they it all you will wonder: what is real and what is not, and perhaps that there is something supernatural…..

  • Too Much

    3
    By Debfleming
    And too unrealistic for my tastes.

  • One of the finest stories I’ve ever read

    5
    By Illuminata Photo
    I’ve been reading and enjoying Mr. Johnson’s Walt Longmire series for the past few weeks. However, Hell is Empty is far and away his best work that I’ve read (so far). I hope that others who read this book please read the earlier works in this series; if you don’t, you’ll miss so much. And, if you do, you’ll recognize that you’re spending time with a master storyteller.

  • Riveting.

    5
    By Caallvin
    This was a page-burner that caught me at the beginning and I blazed through it in a day. Tautly written, beautifully done, featuring a hero with whom I’m falling in love.

  • Wyoming ala Craig

    4
    By Blvtspk
    Pitch perfect.

  • Hell is Empty

    5
    By Mama Ditz
    Best Longmire novel yet!

  • He'll is Empty

    5
    By scottkeith
    Wow! An even better book than "The Cold Dish" and that's saying a lot!

  • Tearful

    5
    By Andykirkland
    Outstanding read. I wanted to breakdown at the thought of the ending. Great story.

  • Hell is Real

    4
    By Len Matheson
    Suspenseful and character-driven, honoring Native American culture and the magnificent persistence of which real men are capable. Gripping to the last page.

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