Friday, December 16, 2011

Another Man’s Moccasins, Craig Johnson

 A Vietnamese woman is killed in Wyoming.  Sheriff Longmire must solve her murder and relive in his mind the death of a Vietnamese woman when he was serving in the war.   Sheriff Longmire is the series star and is tough, has lost his wife, has a daughter recovering from injuries, and is surrounded by a cast of characters – Indian, Mexican… He has a female deputy trying to seduce him, a giant Indian found living in a culvert under the freeway that manhandled him and two of his group, and a selection of possible murderers for a Vietnamese woman who was killed and dumped on the freeway. 

He has to sort out his Vietnamese past and the war that he struggles to get past, and he has the job of being the super cop of the lonely landscape of Hole in the Wall and other lonely locations in his jurisdiction that centers on Sheridan. 

There is some good dialogue and some good action.  Like the last two books the lead character has a personal relationship to the case – I do not know if this is a trend or just a coincidence.  Most characters are clichés and at least for me only the sheriff has a developed personality.  It is the fourth book in the series so I might have missed something in the first three stories.

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