Two-panel image with book cover of "The Brothers McKay" on the left, and author Craig Johnson sitting in an old truck, arm on the steering wheel and cowboy hat on his head, leaning slightly out the window and looking at camera

Craig Johnson

Craig Johnson’s highly anticipated new novel, The Brothers McKay: A Longmire Mystery, is the 22nd novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Walt Longmire mystery series.

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. The books have won numerous awards: Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, Le Prix 813, the Western Writers of America’s Owen Wister Award and and multiple Spur Awards, the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, the SNCF Prix de Polar, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Library Journal’s Best Mystery of the Year, and multiple Wil Rogers Medallion Awards and the Lariat Award. His novella, Spirit of Steamboat, was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming.

He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26.

VIEW ALL AUTHORS