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Renowned Wyoming author Craig Johnson will visit the Park County Libraries this weekend to discuss his books — including his brand new novel — and take questions from local readers.
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Renowned Wyoming author Craig Johnson will visit the Park County Libraries this weekend to discuss his books — including his brand new novel — and take questions from local readers.
Johnson is scheduled to appear at the Powell Library first, on Friday at 6 p.m. He will then appear in Meeteetse and Cody on Saturday. Johnson will stop by the Meeteetse Chocolatier for a noon conversation hosted by the Meeteetse Library before visiting the Cody Library’s Grizzly Hall at 6 p.m.
Johnson is best known as the author of the Walt Longmire series of mysteries, which follow the adventures of a sheriff from Wyoming’s fictional Absaroka County. In addition to becoming New York Times bestsellers, the series of books were turned into a popular television show for A&E Network and Netflix. Johnson released the 17th novel in his Longmire series — titled, “Daughter of the Morning Star” — on Sept. 21 and it quickly became a bestseller.
The new book follows Sheriff Longmire as he’s called to assist Jaya “Longshot” Long, the teenaged star of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team. Long has begun receiving death threats and “is following in the steps of her older sister, who had disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country,” says the book’s official synopsis.
Long’s uncle reaches out to Longmire in hopes of drawing some public attention to the girl’s plight, the synopsis says, “a maneuver which also inadvertently places the good sheriff in a one-on-one with the deadliest adversary he has ever faced in both this world and the next.”
Johnson is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella “Spirit of Steamboat” was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.
“You won’t want to miss your chance to meet him in person,” said Melinda Soto of the Park County Library.
For more information about Johnson’s upcoming visits, contact the Powell Library at 307-754-8828, the Park County Library in Cody at 307-527-1880 or the Meeteetse Library at 307-868-2248.
