A newlywed couple struggles with the hardships of maintaining a ranch in Wyoming in the early 1900s.

Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett heads for the forests of Twelve Sleep County to investigate a massive explosion that may have killed an environmental activist and uncovers evidence of a deadly conspiracy.

Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves drawn into a nineteenth-century conflict after three dead men are found on an old battlefield.

When a resident at the Durant Home for Assisted Living is found poisoned, Sheriff Longmire finds her death proving as dramatic as her life, which was marked by connections to the coal-bed methane industry and an abusive husband.

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.

"When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor's vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor's frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents,...

Joe Pickett is unsure of what he should do when his mother-in-law, whom he dislikes heartily, is accused of killing her husband, Earl, but Joe gradually begins to wonder if Earl's death is what it seems.

The author of the Joe Pickett novels presents ten suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well--and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there--in a collection that includes four stories that feature Pickett himself.