Depth of Winter: A Longmire Mystery (edició 2019)

The body count is high in this one. Walt tracks down his daughter who is being held in Mexico by the man he believes killed his daughter's husband and threatens everyone he loves. Walt is surrounded by a cast of new and interesting characters as he takes on this mission, a stranger in a strange land, where he obviously does not fit. As usual, Walt dances with death more than once and it gets brutal. This book resolves some important questions, except what happens next. How do the answers impact his life and others around him. Looking forward to future books. ( )

I normally enjoy Longmire books, but this one just did not click. It's set in Mexico as Longmire looks for his kidnapped daughter. That just is not where Walt ought to be. He belongs in Wyoming. The book just did not work for me. ( )

Heavy violence, somewhat depressing, not the best Longmire tale I've read. These novels come across better for me in film as I pretty much always enjoyed the TV series. ( )

What happened to this series? The series started as lite mysteries, they are no longer mysteries, nothing to solve here. Just violence (and not even exciting violence, like Power of the Dog, more like violence lite). And the best character of this series, Henry Standing Bear, only briefly makes an appearance. Feel like Johnson just phoned this one in. Hope the next one is better, or I may have to give up on this series. ( )

I finished this novel so angry with the protagonist. His stubborn adherence to his code leads to the deaths of four or more people who had risked their lives to help him in an almost impossible attempt to rescue his kidnapped daughter from a deranged drug lord holed up in the Mexican desert. But he allows the main henchman to survive because he can't kill someone once he has disarmed them. He is in the depths of Mexican gang territory with no prospect of bringing anyone to trial or prison and they have demonstrated their guilt by trying to kill him, but oh no he's a sheriff. He can't shoot disarmed men. Dude, they killed your son-in-law, kidnapped your daughter and tried to kill you. You don't give people like that a second or third (really, a third?) chance. Also practical factors--shoot the propeller off the airplane so they can't use it. ( )