The Brothers McKay
The Brothers McKay is book 22 in the Walt Longmire Western mystery series by Craig Johnson. During a family gathering, one of the members, Pepper McKay, one of the most disliked men in Absakora County, is murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon. Walt has several suspects as his attention turns to the family meeting held that evening at the O-Kay Lodge, where McKay’s very different sons were all present, and all had something to gain or lose by having the old man alive. But when a second person is found dead, the case becomes much more dangerous. Combined with a wildfire that is raging through the canyon and Walt trapped in the middle of it, he has to find the killer while also trying to stay alive.
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Walt Longmire is back in The Brothers McKay, this time trying to figure out a seemingly locked-room case. Pepper McKay, a ruthless person whom everyone hated, is murdered, and Walt immediately suspects someone present at the previous family gathering. Could it be his two sons, both of whom had ulterior motives for being there? But when a second body turns up, Walt realizes that things are much more complicated than he initially thought…
When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren’t in short supply. But Sheriff Walt Longmire’s attention is on those who had gathered for a family meeting that evening, McKay’s very different sons: a smooth-talking charmer, a cosmopolitan journalist, a reclusive monk, and a half-Native ranch hand who keeps the place running. Each had a motive. Each claims he’s innocent.
As Walt investigates what happened that night at the O-Kay Lodge, he’s pulled into a tangle of old grudges and long-buried secrets. Then the case takes a sharp turn: a second body surfaces, and a wildfire tears through the canyon, trapping Walt and forcing him into a fight for his life as both the killer and the elements close in.
The twenty-second novel in the Longmire series, The Brothers McKay is a murder mystery and a survival thriller that tests the sheriff’s hard-won sense of justice—all while paying sly homage to Dostoevsky’s classic.
Part of the Walt Longmire series – see the full reading order on the Craig Johnson Books in Order page.
