Land of Wolves is the new novel in Craig Johnson’s beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series, in which Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is neck-deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. After a journey to the deserts of Mexico in his last novel, Craig Johnson…
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Ann Cleeves’s eighth and final Shetland Island Mystery combines with Courtney Summers’s breakout YA thriller to highlight an amazing week…
From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017, edited by John Sandford, hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions. I wouldn’t envy Otto Penzler’s task…
Is that it? After a knock-‘em-down brawl between Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Walt (Robert Taylor) at the Red Pony, Henry won't press charges if Walt will drop the Hector business. Walt agrees, aided by his very worried lawyer reminding him of his upcoming civil lawsuit. Later, Henry approaches Jacob Nighthorse (A Martinez) and asks…
Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) has changed the locks on the Red Pony and informs Malachi’s inquisitive lieutenant, Darius Burns (J.D. Havenstar), that “… nothing that happens in this bar is your concern anymore. You are fired.” He then answers the phone by saying, “It is a beautiful day at the Red Pony and continual soiree.” …
I’m fairly certain we all knew Cady Longmire (Cassidy Freeman) would be safe after her close quarters duel with J.P. Wright. She acted in self-defense, protecting herself and J.P.’s abused wife Asha. Kevin Morris (Currie Graham), Jacob Nighthorse’s (A Martinez) lawyer, begins providing legal counsel to Cady and lets her know she stood her ground…
Touching and amusing scenes open and close this episode, beginning with Walt (Robert Taylor) and Donna (Ally Walker) getting it on, teenage style in his bronco, to the strains of Bad Company’s “Can't Get Enough.” They had tried to rekindle their lovemaking in Walt’s cabin, but the memories of nearly being killed by Donna’s PTSD…
A sign of a show’s maturation is the opportunity for supporting characters to step out from the shadows of the leads and bask in the limelight for a time. Entering its 5th season, Longmire’s Officer Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) and Jacob Nighthorse (A Martinez) have already had more screen time recently than in years past, and…
Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips) finds Joey Takoda (Alex Livinalli) parked outside The Red Pony, dead of what’s supposed to look like an apparent heroin overdose. Longmire (Robert Taylor) deduces that someone else injected Takoda with heroin in his right arm because Joey had a left-handed baseball glove in his trunk. Walt is really…
Mayor Sawyer Crane (Eric Ladin) is accompanying Dan Keslow, CEO of a pharmaceutical company, on a hunting trip with the dual purpose of sweet-talking the businessman into moving his company to the area for an influx of needed jobs. Keslow says he won’t consider the change of locale because of Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor),…
