Review: An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson

A Mysterious Review of An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson. A Walt Longmire Mystery.

Review summary: There is a nice balance of humor and tension in the story and the nod to Sherlock Holmes is an added treat. This long-running series never disappoints and this latest entry in it is highly recommended. (Click here for text of full review.)

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An Obvious Fact
Craig Johnson
A Walt Longmire Mystery
Viking (September 2016)

Publisher synopsis: In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming—the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower—to investigate, things start getting complicated.

As competing biker gangs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; a military-grade vehicle donated to the tiny local police force by a wealthy entrepreneur; and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry's '59 Thunderbird (and, by extension, Walt's granddaughter) come into play, it rapidly becomes clear that there is more to get to the bottom of at this year's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally than a bike accident. After all, in the words of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the Bear won't stop quoting, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."