Walt Longmire #10
Viking
November 2013
On Sale: October 17, 2013
Featuring: Walt Longmire; Lucian Connally
161 pages ISBN: 0670015784 EAN: 9780670015788 Kindle: B00C1N92WG Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for A&Eβs hit show Longmire
βItβs a question of what you have to do, what you have to live with if you donβt.β
Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in his office on December 24th when heβs interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Waltβs predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt doesnβt recognize the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally. With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in Philadelphia for the holidays, Walt is at loose ends, and despite the womanβs reticence to reveal her identity, he agrees to help her.
At the Durant Home for Assisted Living Lucian Connally is several tumblers into his Pappy Van Winkleβs and swears heβs never clapped eyes on the woman before. Disappointed, she whispers βSteamboatβ and begins a story that takes them all back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three people died in a terrible crash and a young girl had the slimmest chance of survival . . . back to a record breaking blizzard, to Waltβs first year as sheriff, with a young daughter at home and a wife praying for his safety . . . back to a whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life.