The 2017 One Book Yuma selection is The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson
January 25, 2017“After twenty-five years as sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire’s hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody has been one of four high school boys given suspended sentences for raping a local Cheyenne girl. Somebody, it would seem, is seeking vengeance, and Longmire might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and a Sharps .45-70 rifle.
With lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and a cast of characters both tragic and humorous enough to fill in the vast emptiness of the high plains, Walt Longmire attempts to see that revenge, a dish best served cold, is never served at all.”
Craig Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming (population: 25) and is the author of fifteen novels in the Walt Longmire mystery series, which has garnered popular and critical acclaim. The
Cold Dish was a Dilys Award finalist and the French edition won Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/BibliObs. Death Without Company, the Wyoming State Historical Association’s Book of the Year, won France’s Le Prix 813. Another Man’s Moccasins was the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award winner and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Year, and The Dark Horse, the fifth in the series, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Junkyard Dogs won the Watson Award for a mystery novel with the best sidekick, and Hell Is Empty, selected by Library Journal as the Best Mystery of the Year, was a New York Times best seller, as was As the Crow Flies. The Walt Longmire series is the basis for the hit A&E drama, Longmire, starring Robert Taylor, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Katee Sackoff.
Author Craig Johnson will visit Yuma Thursday, March 9th, to lead two community discussions.
Thursday, March 9, 2017 • 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Yuma Main Library
2951 S. 21st Drive, Yuma, AZ 85364
Community talk followed by Q&A and book signing
Thursday, March 9, 2017 • 6:00-7:30 p.m.
AZ Western College/Northern AZ University/Schoening Conference Center (inside 3C building)
2020 S. Avenue 8E, Yuma, AZ 85367
Community talk followed by Q&A and book signing
There is no charge to attend any event. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of the Arizona Western College bookstore.
One Book Yuma is brought to you by Arizona Western College/Northern Arizona University-Yuma Academic Library, Arizona Western College Office of Campus Life, Friends of the Foothills Library, Friends of Yuma County Libraries, Inc., Yuma County Library District, and the Yuma Sun.
Contact:
Angie Creel, MLS
Director of Library Services
Arizona Western College
(928) 344-7776