Craig Johnson Books in Order

An upcoming Longmire mystery set after Return to Sender, The Brothers McKay brings Walt Longmire back for another high-stakes investigation, promising more Wyoming landscapes, hard questions of justice, and the familiar mix of danger, humor, and loyalty.

When Blair McGowan, a mail carrier with a three-hundred-mile route across Wyoming’s Red Desert, disappears, Walt Longmire goes undercover in her place. Following her deliveries leads him to fringe communities and a dangerous cult that may hold the key to her fate.

Set in 1970 on Alaska’s North Slope, Tooth and Claw finds a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear working for an oil company when a polar bear attack, a blizzard, and treacherous coworkers trap them in a deadly fight for survival on the ice.

Shifting between the summer of 1964 and the present, First Frost follows a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear on a road trip that strands them near a former internment camp, even as an older Walt faces the fallout of a controversial shooting back home.

A routine search-and-rescue in the Bighorn Mountains turns explosive when Walt Longmire’s dog uncovers a rifle tied to a 1940s elk-camp murder. Following the trail into land deals and a secret mineral fund, Walt discovers the weapon once belonged to his own grandfather.

Walt Longmire wakes in a deserted Montana street with no memory, surrounded by ghosts of a deadly 1896 boarding-school fire. Trapped in a looping, snowbound night stalked by a soul-stealing legend, he must reclaim his past to escape with his sanity.

Tribal police chief Lolo Long asks Walt Longmire to protect her niece Jaya, a high school basketball star receiving death threats on the Northern Cheyenne reservation. As Walt probes Jaya’s missing sister’s case, he confronts violence tied to the crisis of missing Native women.

When an elderly veteran dies at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers and Sailors, Walt Longmire finds a torn canvas and a shoebox full of cash. The clues point toward Custer’s famous painting and a long-ago art heist that someone may be willing to kill over.

Back home in Wyoming after Mexico, Walt Longmire investigates the death of a Basque shepherd that may be murder, not suicide. Strange messages, an endangered boy, and a controversial wolf on the Bighorn slopes tangle personal loyalties with the politics of predators.

Cartel boss Tomás Bidarte has kidnapped Walt Longmire’s daughter, Cady, and hidden her in remote northern Mexico. Far from his home turf and official backup, Walt crosses the desert alone, assembling unlikely allies to storm an outlaw stronghold and bring her home alive.

A photograph of twenty-five lawmen standing before a steam locomotive sends Walt Longmire back to his early days as a deputy on the Western Star excursion train. A deadly journey in the past collides with a present-day parole hearing and a threat of long-simmering revenge.

In the isolated Wind River Canyon, highway patrol officer Rosey Wayman starts receiving desperate radio calls from a colleague who died decades ago. Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear join her to unravel a haunting legend and a very human crime behind the ghostly signals.

During the Sturgis motorcycle rally near Devils Tower, a young biker is critically injured in a hit-and-run. Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear uncover rival gangs, federal agents, and a notorious woman from Henry’s past, where nothing about the crash is as simple as it appears.

When a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil nicknamed Jen is unearthed on Cheyenne land, a rancher’s suspicious death turns the discovery into a political and financial battle. Walt Longmire must navigate tribal claims, federal pressure, and family grief to uncover a killer.

Twelve short pieces, many first shared as holiday emails, collect everyday moments from Walt Longmire’s life—mistaken identities, quiet acts of kindness, brushes with the uncanny—and offer quick, character-rich snapshots of Absaroka County between the bigger novels.

A fellow detective apparently dies by suicide in neighboring Campbell County, and Lucian Connally asks Walt Longmire to investigate. Racing a looming blizzard and the birth of his first grandchild, Walt reopens cold cases of missing women that someone wants left buried.

On a snowy Christmas Eve, a mysterious young woman sends Walt Longmire and retired sheriff Lucian Connally back to 1988, when they risked their lives flying a battered World War II bomber through a blizzard to save a gravely injured girl.

Driving home from a fishing trip, Walt Longmire, Henry Standing Bear, and Vic Moretti answer a distress call to Crazy Woman Canyon. They find a ranger and camper treed atop a portable toilet, three hungry bears below, and something even stranger trapped inside.

When a teenage lost boy from a polygamist sect turns up in Absaroka County looking for his mother, Walt Longmire’s search leads to an armed fundamentalist compound, oil interests, and whispers of intelligence work, forcing him to protect the vulnerable in a holy war.

Still bruised from his mountain manhunt, Walt Longmire wants downtime, but a prized relay horse tied to a bitter divorce vanishes during American Indian Days. Walt, Cady, and Henry plunge into parade chaos to keep tempers—and the investigation—under control.

A quartet of holiday stories shows Walt Longmire at his most vulnerable and stubborn, as he wrestles with grief for his late wife, complicated love for his daughter Cady, and small-town troubles that don’t take a vacation just because it’s Christmas.

Two weeks before Cady’s wedding, Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear search the Cheyenne Reservation for a new venue and witness a young Crow woman fall from a cliff. Walt helps rookie chief Lolo Long untangle whether it’s suicide, accident, or murder.

Escorting a group of violent prisoners through the Bighorn Mountains, Walt Longmire loses them in a deadly blizzard when a calculating killer escapes. Alone in the high country, guided only by grim visions and stubborn will, he tracks a predator toward a buried crime.

When a developer feuds with the eccentric Stewart clan over their ramshackle junkyard, Absaroka County erupts into a modern range war. Walt Longmire must sort sabotage, missing body parts, and family grudges before the town explodes.

Mary Barsad confessed to shooting her husband six times after he locked her beloved horses in a burning barn. Walt Longmire isn’t convinced, and an undercover trip into a rough Wyoming town reveals motives and enemies enough to kill for.

After a young Vietnamese woman is found murdered beside a Wyoming highway, Walt Longmire sees echoes of his first homicide case as a Marine in Vietnam. The trail forces him to revisit wartime ghosts and protect an accused drifter he doesn’t believe is guilty.

While visiting his daughter Cady in Philadelphia, Walt Longmire is dragged into big-city politics and drug crime after she is viciously assaulted. With Henry Standing Bear and Vic Moretti at his side, Walt hunts the attacker through a maze of corruption.

An elderly Basque woman dies in a Wyoming nursing home, and everyone assumes it was natural—except former sheriff Lucian Connally. Walt Longmire’s investigation into her poisoning exposes old secrets, tangled loyalties, and a killer with decades of grudges.

Veteran sheriff Walt Longmire wants a quiet final term in Absaroka County, but when a young man tied to a brutal assault on a Cheyenne girl turns up murdered, he must sift vengeance from justice before more boys die.