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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
This was my favorite so far...I liked the change of scenery. His macho stuff gets a little old at times, but it's bearable...the characters are still great.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
i was enjoying the thriller romp until vic and walt hooked up, and then vic's lines right after it so now i'm like ughhh, i don't know if i want to keep reading the series for more of that. that being said, i still enjoyed the book for johnson's turns of phrase and how much of a mess walt always is.
Love this series. Books are well written and engaging. Love the way the author weaves in Native American lore and culture.
tense
medium-paced
I usually love Johnson's mysteries, but this one fell short of the typical Longmire story. Maybe because instead of including Wyoming scenery and characters, the sheriff spend the whole book in Philly solving a mystery involving his attorney daughter. But I want to read these in order, so I finished this book so I can move forward!
4 1/2STARS this series just keeps getting better.
Character List
Characters
Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire #3)
Devon Conliffe, attorney, young, handsome, accomplished, son of judge Robert Conliffe,
Patti - secretary Schomberg, Calder, Dallin, and Rhind
Chuck Frymyer tall, slim young man with sandy hair, deputy Powder Junction
Omar Rhoades and Myra Rhoades. outfitters They’re shooting at each other again
Officer Anthony Moretti
Michael Moretti cop investigating Cady's assualt
Lena Moretti Vic's mother
Dr. Rissman
Detectives Asa Katz is Internal Affairs
and Gowder
Ian O’Neil bar owner
Jimmie Tomko was a little younger than I was, of average height and build, firing range
ADA Vince Osgood, shooting incident, associate of Devon Conliffe
Nancy Lyford, the head nurse
Chavez and Johnston cop's
Joanne Fitzpatrick attorney friend Cady
Shankar DuVall drug dealer, who used to provide Devon’s medication for him.
a buddy of his, Billy Carlisle
Toy Diaz is the operator of the house, local kingpin
Ramon Diaz, who had just done a three spot at Graterford.” brother
Tim Gomez, writer for the Daily News
Alphonse, the uncle, was Victor Moretti’s brother, and his restaurant
Death Without Company (Walt Longmire #2)
Jules - drunk, arrested in book 1
Dena waitress @ Red Pony pool player
Santiago Saizarbitoria (Sancho) - applying for deputy
wife’s name was Maria
Archie, the chief of police in Kemmerer,
Jerry Aranzadi was still the full-time bartender, Euskadi Hotel bar
Maggie Watson - 40's an athletic build, probably a skier, state worker
Willis and Erma owners Log Cabin Motel
Joe Lesky - assistant @ Durant Home for Assisted Living
Mari Baroja - Basquos from out on Swayback, was the wildest, most beautiful thing, Luciens wife
annulled more than fifty years ago
Charlie Nurburn, her husband
Jennifer Felson - nurse Durant Home for Assisted Living
Chris Wyatt and Cathi Kindt were the attending EMTs
Ms. Baroja, Lana Baroja cook BAROJA’S BAKED GOODS
Isaac Bloomfield - Dr for Mari Baroja, holocaust survivor
Bill McDermott - ME from Billings
Janine - Ruby’s granddaughter
Lyle Lofton, I’m an attorney in Sheridan County.
Jess Aliff, foreman.
Leo Gaskell aka Cecil Keller shot him
The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1)
Walt Longmire is the sheriff of Absaroka County in Wyoming
Martha Longmire (deceased)
Cady Longmire (daughter)
Henry Standing Bear is a member of the Cheyenne reservation in fictional Absaroka County who owns the Red Pony bar, tavern, cafe and restaurant. He's been friends with Walt Longmire since they were 12 years old.
Victoria Moretti is one of Longmire's most trusted deputies. Though new to the sheriff's office she is a five year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department. Tough and willing to go the distance she feels that she has something to prove to Walt Longmire.
Lucien Connally former sheriff
Omar Hunting Guide
George
Vonnie Hayes was old school Wyoming, After Martha died, Cady tried to fix us up,
Lonnie Little Bird... in wheelchair
Dorothy Caldwell, who owns and runs the Busy Bee restaurant
Bob Barnes - sheep herder, drunk finds dead bodies.
Cody Pritchard, football, track; Dead Jacob and George
Esper, fraternal twins in birth as well as football, tie-and-fly
club, and Future Farmers of America; and Bryan Keller, RAPISTS
Melissa Little Bird raped
Roger Russell, an electrician, shooter
Steve Brandt was the mayor of Durant
Deputies
In the books, Walt is assisted in his duties by a number of deputy sheriffs.
Undersheriff Victoria "Vic" Moretti, ACSD – Walt's second-in-command and named successor, she moved to Wyoming two years before "The Cold Dish" with her husband (whom she has since divorced) from South Philadelphia; she has a degree in Law enforcement from Temple University and is slowly-but-surely working on her Master's, and spent over four years as a patrol officer on the Philadelphia Police Department.
Deputy Sheriff Jim Ferguson, ACSD – Part-time deputy/head of search and rescue/volunteer fireman; Ferg has been on the job since at least 1988.
Deputy Sheriff Brian Turk Connally, ACSD – Lucian's nephew who Walt hired as a favor to his old boss; he transferred from the Powder Junction Substation to the Wyoming Highway Patrol at the end of "The Cold Dish"
Deputy Sheriff Santiago "Sancho" Saizarbitoria, ACSD – A former corrections officer hired in "Death Without Company"
Deputy Sheriff Jess "Double Tough" Aliff, ACSD – Deputy-in-Charge of the Powder Junction Substation in the southern part of the county; he was badly injured in "A Serpent's Tooth"
Deputy Sheriff Chuck Frymyer, ACSD – Hired as a deputy for the Powder Junction Substation in the southern part of the county in "Kindness Goes Unpunished"; he was murdered in "A Serpent's Tooth"
T.J. "Little Lady" Sherwin, the director of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation's lab unit.
In addition, Ruby runs the sheriff's office and serves as dispatcher, and retired Sheriff Lucian Connally works part-time as the dispatcher on the weekends
DCI lab personnel were routinely called Bag Boys, and criminal
investigators were Cashiers.
Character List
Spoiler
Characters
Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire #3)
Devon Conliffe, attorney, young, handsome, accomplished, son of judge Robert Conliffe,
Patti - secretary Schomberg, Calder, Dallin, and Rhind
Chuck Frymyer tall, slim young man with sandy hair, deputy Powder Junction
Omar Rhoades and Myra Rhoades. outfitters They’re shooting at each other again
Officer Anthony Moretti
Michael Moretti cop investigating Cady's assualt
Lena Moretti Vic's mother
Dr. Rissman
Detectives Asa Katz is Internal Affairs
and Gowder
Ian O’Neil bar owner
Jimmie Tomko was a little younger than I was, of average height and build, firing range
ADA Vince Osgood, shooting incident, associate of Devon Conliffe
Nancy Lyford, the head nurse
Chavez and Johnston cop's
Joanne Fitzpatrick attorney friend Cady
Shankar DuVall drug dealer, who used to provide Devon’s medication for him.
a buddy of his, Billy Carlisle
Toy Diaz is the operator of the house, local kingpin
Ramon Diaz, who had just done a three spot at Graterford.” brother
Tim Gomez, writer for the Daily News
Alphonse, the uncle, was Victor Moretti’s brother, and his restaurant
Death Without Company (Walt Longmire #2)
Jules - drunk, arrested in book 1
Dena waitress @ Red Pony pool player
Santiago Saizarbitoria (Sancho) - applying for deputy
wife’s name was Maria
Archie, the chief of police in Kemmerer,
Jerry Aranzadi was still the full-time bartender, Euskadi Hotel bar
Maggie Watson - 40's an athletic build, probably a skier, state worker
Willis and Erma owners Log Cabin Motel
Joe Lesky - assistant @ Durant Home for Assisted Living
Mari Baroja - Basquos from out on Swayback, was the wildest, most beautiful thing, Luciens wife
annulled more than fifty years ago
Charlie Nurburn, her husband
Jennifer Felson - nurse Durant Home for Assisted Living
Chris Wyatt and Cathi Kindt were the attending EMTs
Ms. Baroja, Lana Baroja cook BAROJA’S BAKED GOODS
Isaac Bloomfield - Dr for Mari Baroja, holocaust survivor
Bill McDermott - ME from Billings
Janine - Ruby’s granddaughter
Lyle Lofton, I’m an attorney in Sheridan County.
Jess Aliff, foreman.
Leo Gaskell aka Cecil Keller shot him
The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1)
Walt Longmire is the sheriff of Absaroka County in Wyoming
Martha Longmire (deceased)
Cady Longmire (daughter)
Henry Standing Bear is a member of the Cheyenne reservation in fictional Absaroka County who owns the Red Pony bar, tavern, cafe and restaurant. He's been friends with Walt Longmire since they were 12 years old.
Victoria Moretti is one of Longmire's most trusted deputies. Though new to the sheriff's office she is a five year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department. Tough and willing to go the distance she feels that she has something to prove to Walt Longmire.
Lucien Connally former sheriff
Omar Hunting Guide
George
Vonnie Hayes was old school Wyoming, After Martha died, Cady tried to fix us up,
Lonnie Little Bird... in wheelchair
Dorothy Caldwell, who owns and runs the Busy Bee restaurant
Bob Barnes - sheep herder, drunk finds dead bodies.
Cody Pritchard, football, track; Dead Jacob and George
Esper, fraternal twins in birth as well as football, tie-and-fly
club, and Future Farmers of America; and Bryan Keller, RAPISTS
Melissa Little Bird raped
Roger Russell, an electrician, shooter
Steve Brandt was the mayor of Durant
Deputies
In the books, Walt is assisted in his duties by a number of deputy sheriffs.
Undersheriff Victoria "Vic" Moretti, ACSD – Walt's second-in-command and named successor, she moved to Wyoming two years before "The Cold Dish" with her husband (whom she has since divorced) from South Philadelphia; she has a degree in Law enforcement from Temple University and is slowly-but-surely working on her Master's, and spent over four years as a patrol officer on the Philadelphia Police Department.
Deputy Sheriff Jim Ferguson, ACSD – Part-time deputy/head of search and rescue/volunteer fireman; Ferg has been on the job since at least 1988.
Deputy Sheriff Brian Turk Connally, ACSD – Lucian's nephew who Walt hired as a favor to his old boss; he transferred from the Powder Junction Substation to the Wyoming Highway Patrol at the end of "The Cold Dish"
Deputy Sheriff Santiago "Sancho" Saizarbitoria, ACSD – A former corrections officer hired in "Death Without Company"
Deputy Sheriff Jess "Double Tough" Aliff, ACSD – Deputy-in-Charge of the Powder Junction Substation in the southern part of the county; he was badly injured in "A Serpent's Tooth"
Deputy Sheriff Chuck Frymyer, ACSD – Hired as a deputy for the Powder Junction Substation in the southern part of the county in "Kindness Goes Unpunished"; he was murdered in "A Serpent's Tooth"
T.J. "Little Lady" Sherwin, the director of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation's lab unit.
In addition, Ruby runs the sheriff's office and serves as dispatcher, and retired Sheriff Lucian Connally works part-time as the dispatcher on the weekends
DCI lab personnel were routinely called Bag Boys, and criminal
investigators were Cashiers.
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I expected better. I put it down to two things. The first one is Philadelphia. It sucks. I mean, in real life. But also in this book, because it's agonizingly clear that Johnson can't write it the way he writes Wyoming. There's no sense of place, which is really what made me fall in love with the series. And things that would seem perfectly reasonable in Wyoming are absurd in a real city. The cast of characters just feels...shoehorned.
Secondly, it's the coma. Uggggggh, the coma. There is nothing more grating in the world than comas with convenient dramatic pauses and codas. They're just the worst, okay? Everyone needs to stop using them as narrative devices. This is not One Tree Hill.
Secondly, it's the coma. Uggggggh, the coma. There is nothing more grating in the world than comas with convenient dramatic pauses and codas. They're just the worst, okay? Everyone needs to stop using them as narrative devices. This is not One Tree Hill.
I greatly enjoyed this third book of the Longmire series. I had a feeling that they'd eventually take the country cop to the big city of Philadelphia with the combined links from Vic and Cady. In the words of Lonnie Little Bird, "Mm-Hmm... Yes, it is so."
Great story, great advancement of the characters/relationships. I'm very hooked on this series.
Great story, great advancement of the characters/relationships. I'm very hooked on this series.