Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 6/7/2018 + 1031 more book reviews

Second in the Longmire series and another great read. Sheriff Longmire is called by his friend, retired sheriff Lucien who now lives in a care facility and insists to Longmire that another resident, Mari Baroja, has been poisoned. Lucien then reveals he was married to Mari for about 3 hours 50 years ago, until her parents caught up with them and annulled the marriage. Sure enough, an autopsy finds that Mari was murdered. Lucien's secret isn't the only one that will come out as Mari's tragic past is slowly brought to light. It's a story about the awful things that people can do, told with sympathy and even humor by Johnson. Longmire gets saved a couple times by Henry Standing Bear. All the characters are solid, the scenery and weather are really brought to life by Johnson's great descriptions.
I'm going to mention the TV series based on these books just once more - while I liked it a lot, the books are far and away better IMHO. The characters are barely the same. And while all the TV actors did a fantastic job in their roles, only Lou Diamond Phillips as Henry's voice has stayed with me into the books.

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