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Return to Sender: A Longmire Mystery

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Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost and encounters one of his most baffling cases in Wyoming’s brutal and unforgiving Red Desert.

When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile a day, goes missing the question becomes—where do you look for her? The Postal Inspector for the State of Wyoming elicits Sheriff Longmire to mount an investigation into her disappearance and Walt does everything but mail it in; posing as a letter-carrier himself, the good sheriff follows her trail and finds himself enveloped in the intrigue of an otherworldly cult.

Packed to the brim with twists and turns, the 21st novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series pushes Walt to his absolute limits, forcing him to wrestle with the impossible question: What good are your morals, if you’re marked for the dead letter office?Praise for Return to Sender

[In Return to Sender], Johnson’s plot is suspenseful and fast-moving, the prose is tight, and the landscape is vividly drawn.
—Associated Press

Return to Sender is another first-class addition to the Longmire Mystery series, delivering fans a care-package of the familiar action-packed, suspenseful mystery.
—The Spokesman Review

The straight-shooting hero is welcome in duplicitous times, but it’s the magnificent desert that captures the imagination.
—Kirkus Reviews

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction and the Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Book Award for fiction. His novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26.1

Nobody smiles anymore.

Excuse me?

Have you noticed? Nobody smiles anymore. Mike adjusted himself in the tiny postal Jeep, setting his back against the passenger-side door as he sat on the floor beside Dog so no one would see him in the September early morning light. Remember when we were growing up how you were taught that when you walked down the street and you met a stranger, that you smiled or said hello? He sighed, staring at the plethora of mail and packages in the back as if it were a weight he could no longer bear. People don't do that anymore.

Mike Thurman, my late wife's cousin, was in a bad mood, but that didn't mean he didn't have a point.

Mike had been having a tough month, so I tried to distract him just a bit, thinking of something to say while surveying the interior of the utility vehicle. So, why do they call this model Jeep DJs?

He grunted, swiping off his Seattle Mariners ball cap and rubbing his shaved head, then reaching over and scruffing the fur behind sleeping Dog's ear. Dispatch Jeep.

Oh.

Also, they're two-wheel drive-smart for Wyoming, right?

Was she driving one of these?

No, there's no way you could fit all that mail in a 307-mile route in something like this. She had a hopped-up '68 Travelall that she drove. He shook his head, putting his cap back on and folding his hands in his lap. She probably used up her entire paycheck putting gas in the thing. He nodded to the
Johnson, Craig
ISBN: 9780593830727

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Fiction/nonfiction
Fiction
Genre
Literature & Fiction
Publication date
January, 2026
Pages
336
Reading level
Preschool

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Return to Sender: A Longmire Mystery

Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost and encounters one of his most baffling cases in Wyoming’s brutal and unforgiving Red Desert.

When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile a day, goes missing the question becomes—where do you look for her? The Postal Inspector for the State of Wyoming elicits Sheriff Longmire to mount an investigation into her disappearance and Walt does everything but mail it in; posing as a letter-carrier himself, the good sheriff follows her trail and finds himself enveloped in the intrigue of an otherworldly cult.

Packed to the brim with twists and turns, the 21st novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series pushes Walt to his absolute limits, forcing him to wrestle with the impossible question: What good are your morals, if you’re marked for the dead letter office?Praise for Return to Sender

[In Return to Sender], Johnson’s plot is suspenseful and fast-moving, the prose is tight, and the landscape is vividly drawn.
—Associated Press

Return to Sender is another first-class addition to the Longmire Mystery series, delivering fans a care-package of the familiar action-packed, suspenseful mystery.
—The Spokesman Review

The straight-shooting hero is welcome in duplicitous times, but it’s the magnificent desert that captures the imagination.
—Kirkus Reviews

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction and the Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Book Award for fiction. His novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26.1

Nobody smiles anymore.

Excuse me?

Have you noticed? Nobody smiles anymore. Mike adjusted himself in the tiny postal Jeep, setting his back against the passenger-side door as he sat on the floor beside Dog so no one would see him in the September early morning light. Remember when we were growing up how you were taught that when you walked down the street and you met a stranger, that you smiled or said hello? He sighed, staring at the plethora of mail and packages in the back as if it were a weight he could no longer bear. People don't do that anymore.

Mike Thurman, my late wife's cousin, was in a bad mood, but that didn't mean he didn't have a point.

Mike had been having a tough month, so I tried to distract him just a bit, thinking of something to say while surveying the interior of the utility vehicle. So, why do they call this model Jeep DJs?

He grunted, swiping off his Seattle Mariners ball cap and rubbing his shaved head, then reaching over and scruffing the fur behind sleeping Dog's ear. Dispatch Jeep.

Oh.

Also, they're two-wheel drive-smart for Wyoming, right?

Was she driving one of these?

No, there's no way you could fit all that mail in a 307-mile route in something like this. She had a hopped-up '68 Travelall that she drove. He shook his head, putting his cap back on and folding his hands in his lap. She probably used up her entire paycheck putting gas in the thing. He nodded to the
Johnson, Craig
ISBN: 9780593830727