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Walt Longmire Books in Order

by Craig JohnsonLiterature & Fiction

22 books and 3 novellas from The Cold Dish (2004) to The Brothers McKay (2026). Rated 4.6 across 145,056 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. The Cold Dish

    Book 1 2004 4.5 (17.8k)

    Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire.

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  2. Death Without Company

    Book 2 2006 4.6 (10.7k)

    When an elderly local woman is found poisoned, Sheriff Walt Longmire begins an investigation that soon has him ensnared in a deadly spider's web.

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  3. Kindness Goes Unpunished

    Book 3 2007 4.7 (9k)

    Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mysteries are critically acclaimed. Longmire's third outing takes him from Wyoming to Philadelphia to investigate a brutal assault on his daughter Cady.

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  4. Another Man's Moccasins

    Book 4 2008 4.7 (8.4k)

    Craig Johnson's mystery stories have earned him an esteemed position in the pantheon of contemporary crime novelists. In this fourth installment, Longmire is called to investigate a dead Vietnamese girl found along the Wyoming highway...

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  5. The Dark Horse

    Book 5 2009 4.6 (7.1k)

    The Denver Post hails Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mystery series as a must-read. Joining the four previous novels-all of which have been Book Sense picks-The Dark Horse puts a unique Wyoming twist on the classic British village mystery.

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  6. Junkyard Dogs

    Book 6 2010 4.7 (7.1k)

    Craig Johnson’s rough-and-tumble hero Walt Longmire is quickly becoming a fan-favorite and a critical success. Here Walt has his hands full as greedy land developers employ shady, violent methods to reverse their fortunes in…

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  7. Hell Is Empty

    Book 7 2011 4.7 (7k)

    Spur Award winner Craig Johnson has garnered critical acclaim for his Walt Longmire mysteries. In this riveting seventh entry, Wyoming's Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire is pushed beyond his limits.

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  8. As the Crow Flies

    Book 8 2012 4.7 (7.1k)

    Craig Johnson has won multiple awards and earned starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews for his New York Times best-selling Walt Longmire mysteries.

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  9. A Serpent's Tooth

    Book 9 2013 4.6 (7.2k)

    In this ninth installment in the award-winning and New York Times best-selling Walt Longmire mystery series, the Wyoming sheriff follows his cowboy code of ethics in a religious range war that strikes a little too close to home...

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  10. Spirit of Steamboat

    Novella 9.5 2013 4.7 (3.7k)

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  11. Any Other Name

    Book 10 2014 4.7 (6k)

    Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into a high-plains winter discontent when his former boss Lucian Connally asks him to take on a special case: A detective is dead, and Lucian wants to know what...

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  12. Wait for Signs

    Novella 10.5 2014 4.6 (4.1k)

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  13. Dry Bones

    Book 11 2015 4.7 (6.9k)

    When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found, surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire's jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum - until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on…

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  14. The Highwayman

    Novella 11.5 2016 4.5 (5.9k)

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  15. An Obvious Fact

    Book 12 2016 4.7 (6k)

    In the twelfth novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run near Devils Tower In the midst of the largest…

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  16. The Western Star

    Book 13 2017 4.7 (5.8k)

    The 13th novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times best-selling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix series Longmire.

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  17. Depth of Winter

    Book 14 2018 4.5 (4.9k)

    Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. In Craig Johnson's latest mystery, Depth of Winter, an international hit man and the head of one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico has kidnapped Walt's beloved daughter, Cady, to auction…

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  18. Land of Wolves

    Book 15 2019 4.7 (4.8k)

    The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, in Land of Wolves Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what…

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  19. Next to Last Stand

    Book 16 2020 4.7 (3.9k)

    The new novel in the beloved New York Times best-selling 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 more than two million copies a year,…

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  20. Daughter of the Morning Star

    Book 17 2021 4.7 (3.5k)

    A new novel in the beloved New York Times best-selling Longmire series. When Lolo Long's niece, Jaya, begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as…

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  21. Hell and Back

    Book 18 2022 4.4 (3.1k)

    A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of the Morning Star left off, the next Longmire novel finds the sheriff digging further into the mysteries of the wandering without—a mythical…

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  22. The Longmire Defense

    Book 19 2023 4.8 (1.8k)

    Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of…

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  23. First Frost

    Book 20 2024 4.6 (1.6k)

    Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of characters from Abaroska county tasked with solving a crime even more challenging than the last.

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  24. Return to Sender

    Book 21 2025 4.5 (1.1k)

    Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost and encounters one of his most baffling cases in Wyoming’s brutal and unforgiving Red Desert.

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  25. The Brothers McKay

    Book 22 2026 4.5 (355)

    A masterful new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren’t in short supply.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Walt Longmire is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (9.5 comes after book 9). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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