Next to Last Stand: A Longmire Mystery

Craig Johnson

Sep 2020 · A Longmire Mystery Book 16 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The sixteenth novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.

Ratings and reviews

What a waste of time!! When I discovered the Longmire series a few years l couldn't get through them fast enough--fast moving well plotted with great character development. Johnson started going downhill though with Western Star but he just mailed this one in. No discernible plot, unclear if he was writing an essay on art history or a crime thriller, and without prior knowledge of the returning characters every character would have seemed one-dimensional. Waste of time! I'm done with Longmire

I've read Next to Last Stand the 16th Longmire book by Craig Johnson. I always enjoy the Longmire books from Craig Johnson and this is no exception. I think it's wonderful to take such an idea as a lost painting and make it interesting with murder mixed in. The only thing that bothers me is that the author are starting to talk about ending the series... I suppose it's ok if you can't come up with new ideas but surely there must be lots more to do with the characters? At least let us know how it goes with Vic and her desire for a new car. I love the way Johnson can be so dark and serious and yet so full of humor. Please keep up the good work. I want more Longmire.

Love all of the Longmire books I've read every one of them and I would recommend them to all of you that read.

About the author

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction, the Nouvel Observateur Prix du Roman Noir, and the Prix SNCF du Polar. His novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.