Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday
February 3, 2026. We will be discussing The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson.
This is the first book featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire. This is the basis for
the television series "Longmire".
The book synopsis from the author’s website is “The body of
a young man is found in Absaroka County, Wyoming. It is possible that Cody
Pritchard is the victim of a hunting accident, or is he? After all, he was one
of the four boys who lured Melissa Real Bird, a Cheyenne girl with Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome, into a basement and raped her. Cody and his friends received
what amounted to suspended sentences. Is someone seeking revenge? Will the
specter of race relations and lingering retribution claim more lives? Or will
the only thing that stands between them and a Sharps .45-70 buffalo rifle be
Sheriff Walt Longmire? On the autumnal
side of twenty-four years as sheriff of Absaroka County, which is located at
the base of the Big Horn Mountains and next to the Northern Cheyenne
Reservation, Walt is looking for a quiet period to finish out his tenure but
instead finds himself embroiled in the most volatile and challenging case of
his career. With lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, Deputy Victoria Morretti,
and a cast of characters 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”
We will be meeting in the First Floor Conference Room at
6:30 pm and on Zoom. For more information, please see Sara at the Reference
Desk.
