Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 4/20/2025 + 1257 more book reviews

Another good entry in the Longmire series. I have been reading these in no particular order for the past few years ever since seeing the great TV series that was based on the books. This one is number four in the series and is one of the earlier novels that I missed reading up to this point. The story tells of a young Asian woman who is killed and left near a drainage culvert on the highway in Wyoming. The woman turns out to be Vietnamese which provides a lead-in to telling some of Walt's backstory from when he served in Vietnam. The novel switches between the present dealing with the dead Vietnamese woman to the past where Walt is a Marine MP in Vietnam trying to get to the bottom of an influx of drugs and the murder of a Vietnamese bar girl. So who killed the young Vietnamese woman? The leading suspect is a seven-foot-tall FBI (Fu**ing Big Indian) called Virgil White Buffalo who was living in the culvert where the body was dumped. But there is also a Vietnamese man who shows up in a local bar and claims to be the murdered girl's grandfather. And then there is a photo from the young girl's purse showing Walt when he was in Vietnam with the bar girl who was murdered there. So what is the connection and why was the girl murdered?

This was another fast-paced entry in the series where Walt and his crew are actively investigating a murder that could involve some of the locals. But the novel also focused on some troubling social issues including human trafficking and prostitution. Glad I finally got around to reading this one and I'll be looking forward to reading some of the later novels in this series that I have missed.

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