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Violence
Some
Death by fall; investigation on reservation land; violence connected to criminal activity
Language
Some
Moderate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild; adult relationships
Substance Use
Some
Moderate; reservation culture depicted honestly
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong; the complexity of justice when multiple legal systems apply; Henry Standing Bear's community and what it means to him; grief and a family's different responses to loss
What this book is about
The eighth Longmire novel takes Walt onto the Northern Cheyenne reservation where a young woman has fallen from the Painted Warrior cliff. Henry Standing Bear's niece is the primary suspect. Johnson explores Native American sovereignty and jurisdiction — the legal complexity of crimes on reservation land — while deepening Henry as a character and the Longmire series' treatment of Wyoming's Indigenous communities.
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