Review: Wait For Signs by Craig Johnson

A Mysterious Review of Wait For Signs by Craig Johnson. A Walt Longmire Short Story Collection.

Review summary: Each story in this collection is distinctive, and tells of a journey Longmire makes through Absaroka County and the very interesting characters he meets along the way. Including the author's Hillerman Award-winning story "Old Indian Trick", a very entertaining collection for fans of the series. (Click here for text of full review.)

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Wait For Signs
Craig Johnson
A Walt Longmire Short Story Collection
Viking (October 2014)

Publisher synopsis: Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award — winning "Old Indian Trick." This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson's novels and the A&E series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans rejoiced when Johnson sent out a new short story featuring an episode in Walt's life that doesn't appear in the novels; over the years, many have asked why they can't buy the stories in book form.

Wait for Signs collects those beloved stories — and one entirely new story, "Petunia, Bandit Queen of the Bighorns" — for the very first time in a single volume, regular trade hardcover. With glimpses of Walt's past from the incident in "Ministerial Aide," when the sheriff is mistaken for a deity, to the hilarious "Messenger," where the majority of the action takes place in a Port-A-Potty, Wait for Signs is a necessary addition to any Longmire fan's shelf and a wonderful way to introduce new readers to the fictional world of Absaroka County, Wyoming.