The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson
The Cold Dish, Craig Johnson
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The Cold Dish

Author: Craig Johnson

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/08/2007


Synopsis

Award-winning author Craig Johnson's critically acclaimed debut Western mystery takes listeners to the breathtaking mountains of Wyoming for a tale of cold-blooded vengeance. Two years earlier, four high school boys were given suspended sentences for raping a Cheyenne girl. Now, two of the boys have been killed, and only Sheriff Walt Longmire can keep the other two safe. "Johnson, who lives in Ucross, Wyoming, knows the Western landscape well, and creates stunning and violent scenes of the Rocky Mountains."-Bookmarks

About Craig Johnson

Craig Johnson is currently the senior director of ministries at Lakewood Church with Joel Osteen, overseeing all pastoral ministries and staff, and is the founder of Champions Foundation and the Champions Club developmental centers for special needs, with over 75 centers across the world. Craig is the coauthor of Champions Curriculum, a full-scope Christian curriculum for those with special needs. He is the author of Lead Vertically: Inspire People to Volunteer and Build Great Teams That Last and Champion: How One Boy’s Miraculous Journey Through Autism Is Changing the World. Craig and his wife of 29 years, Samantha, have three children: Cory, Courtney, and Connor.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on August 31, 2018

"On the afternoon of June 25th, 1876, as the heat waves rolled from the buffalo grass, giving the impression of a breeze that did not exist, Colonel George Armstrong Custer and five companies of the Seventh Cavalry rode into the valley of the Little Big Horn. Also that afternoon, Davey Force, a pitc......more

Goodreads review by Alejandro on November 15, 2016

Solid narrative with guts! This is the first novel in the “Longmire Mysteries” book series. MODERN-DAY SHERIFF I have watched the TV adaptation of Longmire since its beginning. I decided to watch it since it has three cast members that I was familiarized and I like to watch them to perform: -Kate......more

Goodreads review by James on June 09, 2015

This is the first book in Craig Johnson's long-running series featuring Walt Longmire, the middle-aged sheriff of Absaroka County in Wyoming. The books, in turn, would later inspire the television program that was named for the sheriff. This book opens with the shooting death of a young man named Cod......more

Goodreads review by Charles on March 09, 2022

Revenge is a dish best not served at all A teenager/young man who was convicted of brutal sexual abuse is found dead. Shot through the back. There is a host of suspects. The boy was given an incredibly light sentence which angered almost everyone. Longmire and others determine that he was shot from l......more

Goodreads review by Carmen on March 28, 2016

He was drinking a ginger ale and leafing through a stack of police supply catalogs. I guess she figured we have him chained up in the basement. I asked her about Jim, and she said that he was hunting down in Nebraska with some friends; geese, she said. There was a hesitancy in the way she said it th......more