Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Walt Longmire Mystery (A Longmire Mystery)
In Johnson's appealing third Walt Longmire mystery (after 2006'sDeath Without Company), the Wyoming sheriff  is drawn into a messy situation in the City of Brotherly Love when his daughter  Cady's ex-boyfriend is killed a few days after Longmire accuses him of being  behind the assault that left Cady, a Philadelphia lawyer, comatose. Longmire's  deputy, Victoria Moretti, soon arrives on the scene as her family of Philly  cops tries to decide whether to suspect Longmire of murder or ask his help with  the investigation. Everyone in the cast appears to be a stereotype of some  sort—the Italian police clan, the Salvadoran drug dealer, the Irish publican  and Longmire's eternally wise and mystical Cheyenne friend, Henry Standing  Bear—but Johnson plays it for the right kind of laughs. When someone  introduces Henry as Longmire's "Native American sidekick," Longmire ripostes  that it's the other way around. The quick pace and tangled web of  interconnected crimes will keep readers turning pages.(Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.