Author Craig Johnson discusses new novel ‘Hell and Back’
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick Bookstore, welcomes novelist Craig Johnson, whose new book is “Hell and Back: A Longmire Mystery.”
This event is free and first come, first served. A limited number of reserved seats with premium view are available for those who pre-order a copy of the book by contacting Warwick’s or calling the store at 858-454-0347. One place reserved per book.
Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of Walt Longmire’s mystery novels, which are the basis of Longmire, Netflix’s hit original drama. The books have won multiple awards: The Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs Prize, the Wyoming Historical Association Book of the Year, The 813 Prize, the “Western Writers of America’s Spur Award”, the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, the Prix SNCF de Polar, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, The Watson Award, Library Journal’s Best Mystery of the Year, the Rocky, and the Will Rogers Award for Fiction. Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the first One Book Wyoming Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.
About “Hell and Back”
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where 30 young Native American boys perished in a tragic residential school fire in 1896? What if everyone we met in this endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and you were missing a bullet from the gun on your hip? And if there was something there in the yellow sky – with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust – something the Northern Cheyenne call the Éveohtsé-heómese, the wanderer without, the thief of souls? What if the only way to know who you are was because your name is printed on the leather band of your cowboy hat, and if your name is Walt Longmire, but you can’t remember him.
In Hell and Back, the eighteenth installment in the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson takes the beloved sheriff to the limits of his sanity to battle the most dangerous council he’s ever faced – himself.
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