Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Western. HTML:It�??s holiday season in Absaroka County and Sheriff Walt Longmire gets personal in this delightful collection of four short stories from New York Times�??bestselling author Craig Johnson.
Full of Longmire�??s dry wit and good heart, Christmas in Absaroka County is a holiday must-have for every Longmire and Craig Johnson fan, and it also includes the first chapter of The Cold Dish, the first novel in the Longmire Mystery Series.
Readers glimpse a softer side of Sheriff Walt Longmire as he grapples with the death of his wife, Martha, and his sometimes turbulent but ever-loving relationship with his daughter, Cady. In these four stories�??�??Ministerial Aid,�?� �??Slick-Tongued Devil,�?� �??Toys for Tots,�?� and �??Unbalanced�?� (three of which have been sent to Johnson�??s fans over the years in the author�??s �??Post-it�?� e-mails)�??Walt is alternately at his best and his worst. He helps a somewhat delusional elderly victim of domestic abuse while sporting a bathrobe and a mean hangover on New Year�??s Day. He�??s sidelined by grief when his wife�??s obituary reappears in the paper and there�??s an unexpected knock on his door two days before Christmas. He strives to help even those who don�??t want it when he picks up a young female hitchhiker, and he�??s forced into some last-minute Christmas shopping by the Greatest Legal Mind of Our Time, during w