Johnson, Craig, 1961- Walt Longmire mystery.

Includes excerpt of the author's second novel featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire, "Death without Company ..." in the back of the book

After twenty-four years as sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody had been one of four high school boys given suspended sentences for raping a local Cheyenne girl. Somebody, it would seem, is seeking vengence, and Longmire might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and a Sharps .45-70 buffalo rifle. With lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and a cast of characters both tragic and humorous enough to fill in the vast emptiness of the high plains, Walt Longmire attempts to see that revenge, a dish best served cold, is never served at all

Includes A Penguin Readers Guide to "The Cold Dish," at the last 11 pages of the book

First published: New York : Viking Penguin, 2005