Part of Walt Longmire, book 16
First published 2020
When Charley Lee Stillwater drops dead from a heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Sheriff Walt Longmire expects routine paperwork. Instead he finds a Florsheim shoebox stuffed with a million dollars and a fragment of what might be the most famous painting in America. Custer's Last Fight hung in saloons across the country after Anheuser-Busch printed over two million copies each year. The original burned in 1946 at Fort Bliss, Texas, at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters. Or did it? Stillwater's death pulls Longmire into a decades-old art theft that someone killed to protect. The sheriff must trace the painting's path from a military fire to a dead veteran's belongings, following a trail that grows more dangerous with each step.
Genres: american-fiction, adventure, mystery, crime, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, investigation, mystery
Setting: Fort Bliss, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors
Period: 20th-century
336 pages · Hardcover · Viking