

“Johnson is a born storyteller, and he spins this old-fashioned adventure tale deftly…An extremely pleasant present for fans of this popular series. back to a whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life.

back to a record- breaking blizzard, to Walt' s first year as sheriff, with a young daughter at home and a wife praying for his safety. Disappointed, she whispers " Steamboat" 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. At the Durant Home for Assisted Living Lucian Connally is several tumblers into his Pappy Van Winkle' s and swears he' s never clapped eyes on the woman before.

With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in Philadelphia for the holidays, Walt is at loose ends, and despite the woman' s reticence to reveal her identity, he agrees to help her. Walt doesn' t recognize the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally. The item Spirit of steamboat, Craig Johnson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic. A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for A&E' s hit show Longmire " It' s a question of what you have to do, what you have to live with if you don' t." Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in his office on December 24th when he' s interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Walt' s predecessor, Lucian Connally.
