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    The Cold Dish
    The Cold Dish
    The Cold Dish
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Cold Dish

    Written by Craig Johnson

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    About this audiobook

    Award-winning author Craig Johnson's critically acclaimed debut Western mystery takes listeners to the breathtaking mountains of Wyoming for a tale of cold-blooded vengeance. Two years earlier, four high school boys were given suspended sentences for raping a Cheyenne girl. Now, two of the boys have been killed, and only Sheriff Walt Longmire can keep the other two safe. "Johnson, who lives in Ucross, Wyoming, knows the Western landscape well, and creates stunning and violent scenes of the Rocky Mountains."-Bookmarks
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 8, 2007
    ISBN9781440781346
    The Cold Dish
    Author

    Craig Johnson

    Craig Johnson es el director principal de ministerios de la Iglesia de Lakewood con Joel Osteen, que supervisa todos los ministerios pastorales y es el fundador de la Fundación Champions y los centros de desarrollo del Club de Campeones para necesidades especiales, con más de 75 centros en todo el mundo. Craig es el coautor de Champions Curriculum, un plan de estudios cristiano de alcance completo para aquellos con necesidades especiales. Es autor de Lead Vertically que inspira a la gente a ofrecerse como voluntario y a construir grandes equipos que perduren y Champion que habla sobre cómo el viaje milagroso de un niño a través del autismo está cambiando el mundo. Craig y su esposa Samantha, tienen tres hijos: Cory, Courtney y Connor.

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    • 5/5
      Wow, wow, wow!! I have found myself another series to happily devour. I love it when a story has multiple characters who could plausibly have done it, and I'm kept guessing nearly to the end :)
    • 5/5
      This book is a long-lost echo of the American Society when the truth counted for something and there was only one version of it. Lost love, old friendship, and hope for the future when everyone cared about something other than selfies and subscribers! Good-hearted folks will wipe a tear from their eyes and smile when the last word is read? God help us all!
    • 5/5
      Johnson’s writing is so descriptive, I can literally feel the cold and see the character’s faces. As a writer myself, he gives me inspiration on how to paint pictures with words. Excellent read!
    • 3/5
      I found the narration style to be somewhat confusing, and had trouble keeping track of the dialogue. Not sure if I'll be reading any more of these.
    • 5/5
      After finishing the Netflix Longmire series , I was itching for more- and I was not disappointed.

      If you’re familiar with the tv show, it takes a little while to adjust to minor differences. But fear not. This book contains the spirit and character of the enigmatic and charming Walt Longmire you’ve come to love.

      If you’re new to the series, Walt Longmire is a welcome change to the overdone CSI type murder mysteries that have flooded to mainstream for some time. Longmire is the quintessential cowboy and detective. Longmire is a virtuous, yet rugged man, of the Old West, but is living in the modern world. Absaroka County , Wyoming is the perfect setting for a character such as Walt Longmire. The countryside of modern Wyoming allows the reader to escape to a world long forgotten elsewhere.

      I highly recommend this to anyone who loves adventure, thrillers, intrigue, and wants to enjoy the world of a modern cowboy western.
    • 4/5
      Good story, but too much foul language for my taste. I think I like the tv series better, but will still continue the books.
    • 5/5
      The A@E television program based on Longmire books by Craig Johnson, now streaming on Netflix, got me hooked. I thought the tv shows were terrific until I read the first book in the series, The Cold Dish. The book is so superior, so rich and multi-faceted, that the tv show now pales in comparison for me. I can't wait to read the next book in the Longmire series. I won't go over the plot or characters because so many others have done so. Here's a couple of points. As far mystery-suspense, this book is terrific. There's a scene in which Longmire has to trudge through a blizzard to save his friend Henry and himself - oh, and did I mention a murderer is on the loose and has already has taken a couple of lives? This passage was so well-written and so suspenseful that I literally could not read the pages fast enough. Terrific writing! Second, the "sense of place" and its connection to Native American spirituality are at the center of this book. I easily tire of fiction that is all about action or emotion, or worse, fiction that takes place entirely inside the self-involved little pea brain of some self-pitying person - with no connection to the external world. Seems like there's a lot of that around these days. Johnson's book is a lesson in how to live in harmony with one's natural surroundings, and the deeply spiritual place one has to be in for that to happen. Wyoming is a character in this book, maybe the most important one. And the Cheyenne relationship to the natural world is key to understanding Longmire and Henry and many of the characters who inhabit this world. We can learn from them.
    • 5/5
      You need a certain languid frame of mind to appreciate Craig Johnson's first Longmire novel. The language is exquisite and Johnson captures the atmosphere and personality of small-town Wyoming. This was clearly a labor of love for the author. On the other had, to read this book you can't have anyplace to go. The pacing is of the first half is glacial and halfway through the book Longmire doesn't have any solid suspects and doesn't seem to mind much. Johnson spends so much time early on building in background to every character and situation that not much seems to happen. At the midpoint, though, the pace picks up and the rest of the story rockets right along. I won't spoil the conclusion, but when I finished I had to step away and gather my thoughts. This story is wonderfully colored and the relationships between the characters show a depth that the current Netflix incarnation of the series can't hope to reach.
    • 2/5
      The ending to this book really compromised the entire book for this reader. For a Walt Longmire story to end like this one does, one wonders if subsequent books by this author will be similar and, therefore, not worthy of reading. Let’s hope not.
    • 3/5
      I thought the characters were interesting and the story was plenty high drama. I love the quirk Craig Johnson gives Henry - that he doesn't use contractions. It gives him a very unique voice. There is a lot of foul language, which is no surprise in a police drama, but I'm not sure I feel like reading another one.
    • 4/5
      I liked the story and characters very much. I wish the language wasn't so rough. I liked Vic but not her language.
    • 3/5
      Tough and funny, hopeless and loveable, Walt Longmire needs to get his act together in more ways than one. But he will...you just know it...at least when circumstances are dire and needs must. In this first novel of the series, Walt is contemplating retirement from the office of Sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. His life is a mess. Four years a widower, he lives in the shell of the uncompleted cabin he and his wife had begun to build before her death. He carries some Vietnam baggage. He avoids his daughter's phone calls, takes a lot of guff from his dispatcher/office manager Ruby, and from his heir apparent, a former member of the South Philadelphia PD, Deputy Victoria Moretti. Vic's specialties are ballistics and the "F" word; she resents having moved to East Bejaysus Wyoming when her husband decided to take a job there. Now four young white men who were let off easy after being convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl from the reservation appear to be targets of a vengeful shooter, and the choice of weapon limits the potential suspect field to a select few...including Walt himself, and his best friend, Henry Standing Bear. Really fine writing, lots of descriptive detail (I think I got a little frostbite myself at one point), humor in all the right places, and an ending I didn't see coming until just the right moment. Highly recommended, with the caveat that there are graphic and disturbing moments.
    • 5/5
      I've been watching the TV series since Season 1, but just got around to reading this. As much as I love the TV version, the book was *so* much better. I love the dry humor that made me laugh out loud in places. I also love the relationship between Walt and Henry. I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series.
    • 4/5
      I had come across this TV series title several times on Netflix before actually taking the time to watch it. Needless to say, I found it hard not to like Robert Taylor's portrayal of Walt Longmire. After having watched a season-plus of episodes, I decided I needed to read the books, to see what was missing. I was not disappointed.

      As a big fan of Robert B. Parker's series of Spenser, this quickly jumped into a series I wanted to read. Though it does, obviously, start with book one mirroring one of the episodes from the television series, there are enough differences I feel like I am not reading a novelization. Johnson does well in bringing what would normally appear mundane for a small-time sheriff into the a mystery that requires interaction with other characters as eccentric as the sheriff in order to solve this crime of murder. With a nice twist I was not expecting at the end, Johnson has shown he has the feel of a great western-mystery writer.
    • 5/5
      I read a layer book from the series and enjoyed it. Being somewhat methodical I wanted to start at the beginning of the series. I see now it is the time Johnson introduces his character and the local to his audience. It adds depth to the book as well as giving me the sense of starting on a journey. Figuring out the mystery didn't same as important as getting to know the place and people. That is done very well. Online's is certainly an important theme. It will be interesting to see how far Johnson takes that.
    • 4/5
      I read a Walt Longmire novella before reading this and the supernatural elements in it felt weird. But here in the first novel they fit in naturally. A great read, somehow even better than the TV adaptation.
    • 5/5
      Damn, I love this author's style. I need more of his novels. Finding out who the killer was, at the end of the book, was like a kick in the gut.
    • 5/5
      There are many things I like. Some I like because they are good. Some are easy. Some are pleasant. Some like me back. Then, some things just fit. I like them because they fit and I find myself not even thinking about why. Growing up, I loved all kinds of movies--Swashbucklers, Crime Noir, Musicals, Costumers and Biographies and more. But the genre that fit me best was Westerns. Especially the ones with the heroes of few words played against sprawling natural vistas that spoke volumes about what it meant to do the right thing, to be the hero. And despite changing fashions and tastes in the intervening decades since I so raptly watched Gary Cooper, James Stewart and John Wayne, the love of that Western sensibility has remained, though often buried, a part of me. I think that is why when I first saw the ads for the TV series Longmire I felt that I had been there before. And when the show went on hiatus I sought out the books. Craig Johnson captures what I was drawn to, am drawn to. The quiet understood bond between old friends. Drawing strength from the lands where you live and paying back that tab with the understanding that your spirit belongs to the land. Across this the author plays out the crimes of men creating a kind of western noir alternating the high lonesome of the Wyoming mountains with the kind of shadows that can only come from neon lit saloons where the clients pour down their troubles and then look for more. THE COLD DISH is a marvelous introduction to Walt Longmire with equal parts humor and tragedy, the former as a brace against the latter.
    • 4/5
      A great read. If you are a fan of mystery and cowboys this is a book you need to check out.
    • 4/5
      I picked this up in Florida after hearing the strongest possible recommendation for it from a bookseller in Bath. It was a nice enough start to a new series, but I think it probably needs another before I commit. Trouble is they're hard to find outside the U.S.
    • 4/5
      This book has great character development and sense of place with a definite western flavor. Ken & I both enjoyed listening to it on a long road trip.
      (Sensitive readers, there is one character w a foul mouth.)
    • 5/5
      There is a language warning for my fellow readers but my husband and I loved it. We found reasons to take drives (audio book) just to listen to it.
    • 4/5
      Both my wife, Heather, and I got to love watching the now extinct TV series Longmire about a taciturn Wyoming sheriff who looks after a large rural patch of that wonderful state. So after the series demise, I went to my trusty Ontario Download Centre and downloaded a bunch and recently read my first - fittingly the first in the series.I'd say the first half of the book was 3 stars ate best and the second pretty well a maximum 5 stars rating. Why, well maybe my issue but the first part spends IMHO far too much time on Walt, the rest of the characters, especially Walt. Henry, Standing Bear, is very like the character in the series except he's big and well built. Vic is similar but quite unlike her excellent TV protagonist. Walt is similar to his TV counterpart, played by an Aussie!< except he likes to quote the classics - Homer and Shakespeare for example. However, the second half got down to business investigating a murder that turned into several and obviously related. There's quite a bit of Indian spiritualism in the plot, it is Wyoming, and the land and the weather play a large role. The ending was a big surprise and completely gobsmacked me.I'll read more for sure.
    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed the Longmire series on Netflix, so I decided to give the first novel in the series a try. I had to re-think some of the characters and put my perception of them based on the show on hold, which isn't a bad thing. I am enjoying meeting the characters through the author's eyes, and I plan to read more about them in subsequent books. This one is whodunit type of mystery, and all of my questions were answered by the end. Yes, there was an interesting twist also, and the guilty party wasn't anyone I had suspected. A worthwhile read.
    • 3/5
      Good characters overall and a good sense of place. Essential elements--Wyoming, the Cheyenne nation, murder and the pursuit of justice by a dusty, dedicated lawman. 1st half was ridiculously slow. 2nd half got better. Interesting enough to spur me into the TV series. Next book, please!
    • 4/5
      Almost a 3.5 but tiresome in some places. Good to see Walt's inner life and he is a bit more of a boob in the book. I hope the writing evolves. Some of the character traits were stock. But good characters overall and a good sense of place and similar and different enough from the TV series to be interesting.
    • 2/5
      Another instance of checking out a book after a TV show or movie. After only a few pages, I decided I vastly approve of the changes made by the script writers for the show and that I would gain nothing from time spent reading the background material. So back it went to the library.
    • 4/5
      The book moves at a leisurely pace. Don't get complacent though because when the action comes it is fast and furious. The start of the book (first 100) pages moves slower than the end. It is worth it though because you know Johnson is setting up a world you are going to be visiting again real soon. I thought the end was fabulous and look forward to reading the 2nd book in the series.
    • 4/5
      Saw the first season of Longmire at a friend's urging - very enjoyable.... Tried this first novel that the show was based upon after another friend saw the author speak - said he was a very enjoyable personality.
      Liked The Cold Dish more than the show - more back history, tough to do on tv - and will read more.
    • 3/5
      Well, overall I did like this book. But I'd say not enough to read more. The characters were good, as was the dialogue and interactions between them. And the ending was very satisfying, as I did not see it coming! But the pace is just too slow for me. The first 100 pages were tediously slow. When there finally was a bit of action, I was much more into it. And, like I said, I like Walt, Henry, Vic and the rest. Just probably not enough to read the next story.