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Mystery · 2015 · PG-13

Any Other Name

by Craig Johnson

A Wyoming detective killed himself — or was he murdered?

A sheriff’s mysterious death spurs the tenth Longmire novel from New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+ Walt Longmire is sinking into high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Conally, asks him to take on a mercy case in an adjacent county. Detective Gerald Holman is dead and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of his first grandchild, Walt learns that the by-the-book detective might have suppressed evidence concerning three missing women. Digging

For14+GenreMysteryLength272 pagesRead time~7 hours

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Violence

A lot

Suicide/murder investigation; the violence of boom-town crime; a trafficking subplot

Language

Some

Moderate language

Sexual Content

Barely any

Mild

Substance Use

Some

Moderate; drinking in the oil field culture

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Strong; the moral cost of energy development; what a boom does to a community's identity; the detective who couldn't take what he saw anymore

What this book is about

The tenth Longmire mystery finds Walt in the oil boom town of Absalom, Wyoming, investigating a fellow lawman's apparent suicide. The boom economy has transformed the community: new money, new crime, and workers streaming in from elsewhere. Johnson's political instincts are sharp — this is a Longmire novel about what energy extraction does to a place and its people.

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Human trafficking subplot

Suicide investigation

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