5 North Of Boston Libraries To Host ‘Longmire’ Author Craig Johnson For Virtual Talk On October 3

Five North of Boston libraries have joined forces to host bestselling author Craig Johnson for a Zoom webinar on Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 7pm.

Johnson will discuss his brand new book -- Next To Last Stand: A Longmire Mystery -- in conversation with moderator Hank Phillippi Ryan in this Zoom webinar.

Space is limited. Registration is required and can be found at:  www.tinyurl.com/nexttolaststand 

While this virtual event is completely free, attendees can purchase an autographed copy of the book to be shipped to their homes from the event’s bookstore partner - Wellesley Books - at www.tinyurl.com/buynexttolaststand.

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 his novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.

Next To Last Stand is the new novel in the beloved bestselling Longmire series. One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing a million dollars, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.

Hank Phillippi Ryan is a USA Today bestselling author of 12 thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, three Anthonys, the Daphne, and for The Other Woman, the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, with 37 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. Book critics call her “a master of suspense,” “a superb and gifted storyteller.” Hank's newest standalone psychological suspense thriller is The First To Lie. Publisher Weekly starred review says: "Stellar. Ryan could win a sixth Agatha win this one."

This event is sponsored by a collection of North of Boston libraries, including the Memorial Hall Library in Andover, Flint Memorial Library in North Reading, Tewksbury Public Library, Wilmington Memorial Library, and Woburn Public Library.