Part of Walt Longmire, book 2
First published 2007
Mari Baroja lies dead at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, poison coursing through her veins. Sheriff Walt Longmire arrives to find a mystery that stretches back fifty years into the woman's hidden Basque heritage. The investigation pulls Longmire deep into Mari's dramatic past, where secrets from another era refuse to stay buried. Working alongside his trusted friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and the newest team member Santiago Saizarbitoria, Longmire must trace connections between Mari's distant history and her present-day murder. The killer walks among the living residents and staff, but identifying them means unraveling decades of carefully guarded truth. In the unforgiving landscape of Absaroka County, Wyoming, Longmire discovers that some ghosts demand justice before they rest.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, found-family
Setting: Absaroka County, Wyoming
Period: 50 years ago
271 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books