Dry Bones

When the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered surfaces on a ranch in Absaroka County, Wyoming, the find sets off a territorial dispute among the ranching family, the Cheyenne tribe, the state Attorney General, and the FBI that rapidly overwhelms local capacity. Then the rancher on whose land she was found turns up face-down in a turtle pond, and Sheriff Walt Longmire has both a sixty-six-million-year-old cold case and a fresh murder to solve simultaneously. Craig Johnson's eleventh Longmire novel brings irreverent humor to one of the most absurdly consequential property disputes in American judicial history.

George Guidall narrates with the Western dry wit the material demands, giving Dry Bones its comic sparkle without undermining the genuine legal and human stakes of the case. His performance of Longmire's deadpan engagement with the competing interests surrounding the dinosaur, each one convinced their claim is paramount, is some of the finest comic work in his long run with the series. At just over eight hours, Dry Bones is one of the Longmire series' most purely entertaining entries.