Any Other Name

Name: Any Other Name
Rating: 4.53 (20882 reviews)
Author: Craig Johnson

Walt Longmire • Book 10

by Craig Johnson

Narrated by George Guidall

4.53 ABR Score (20.9K ratings)

★ 4.25 Goodreads (14.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (6.0K)

8h 30m Released 2014 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Most series soften by book ten — this one gets darker, and Guidall sounds like he's been carrying this story for years.

Great if you want: a character study wrapped in a quiet, grim mystery
Listening experience: slow-burn and wintry — melancholy more than tense
Narration: Guidall's weathered voice is inseparable from Longmire at this point
Skip if: you haven't read earlier books — emotional weight requires the history

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About This Audiobook

Any Other Name finds Walt Longmire in the grip of winter, asked by his retired mentor Lucian Conally to investigate what appears to be the suicide of a neighboring county's detective. The dead man, a by-the-book investigator, may have suppressed evidence of three missing women, and the deeper Longmire digs, the darker the picture of institutional failure becomes, as his own granddaughter's imminent birth presses against the case's urgency.

George Guidall's narration gives the winter landscape its full weight, the cold and isolation of the Wyoming high plains functioning as both setting and metaphor for what has been buried beneath official surfaces. Guidall's Longmire carries the Spur Award-winning novel's moral seriousness without losing the wry warmth that makes the character worth following across the series.