Depth of Winter

This book didn't work, and that makes me sad. Everything else I've read by Johnson has gotten a four or five star.

There was one brilliant line regarding Longmire's being unable to speak Spanish, the inability of the little girl who was accompanying him to speak English, and the mule they were taking back to the ranch unable to speak either language:

“We talked the whole way back to the dry ranch, none of us understanding the other but all of us enjoying the conversation.”

That's the reason Depth of Winter got a three star rather than a two.