"Any Other Name" by Craig Johnson

Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into a high-plains winter discontent when his former boss, Lucian Connally, asks him to take on a mercy case outside his jurisdiction. Detective Gerald Holman of neighboring Campbell County is dead, and Lucian wants to know what drove his old friend, a by-the-book lawman with a wife and daughter, to take his own life. With the clock ticking on the birth of Walt’s first grandchild in Philadelphia, he enlists the help of undersheriff Vic Moretti, Henry Standing Bear, and Gillette policeman Corbin Dougherty and, looking for answers, reopens Holman’s last case.

Before his mysterious death, Detective Holman was elbow-deep in a cold case involving three local women who’d gone missing with nothing to connect the disappearances—or so it seemed. The detective’s family and the Campbell County sheriff’s office beg Walt to drop the case. An open-and-shut suicide they say. But there’s a blood trail too hot to ignore, and it’s leading Walt in circles: from a casino in Deadwood, to a mysterious lodge in the snowy Black Hills of South Dakota, to a band of international hit men, to a shady strip club, and back again to the Campbell County sheriff’s office. Digging deeper, Walt will uncover a secret so dark it threatens to claim other lives before the sheriff can serve justice—Wyoming style. - from Amazon.com

This is book ten in the Walt Longmire series, that I fell in love with due to the television show (which is now in season three).  

This story brings Walt in helping out his friend, and former sheriff, Lucian Connally, on a case in a nearby county. Being tenacious as Walt is, he is swept up into the cause of a suicide of an officer, and his family, as he searches for the reason a "solid" officer would kill himself in such a mysterious way (for that officer). Also going on is Walt's daughter Cady, who is in Philidelphia, and is having a baby that she is demanding Walt be there for the birth of. Nothing like some pressure to get the case solved.

Brief appearances by Vic Morelli and Henry Standing-Bear help fill in part of the story, but most of it seems to be Walt following the trail as it leads into the lives and happenstances of three missing women. 

I enjoyed the previous novels quite a bit, but felt a bit let-down on this one. It read more like a possible script for a tv show, than the writing style Johnson showed in his other Longmire stories. Still a decent read, but felt it was a bit more forced to have some more internal struggle in Walt, though he has always been a pitbull when on a case, and always sought true justice for a crime. I hope there will be more stories of Longmire, as I would like to see more develop between him and Vic, and more on Henry.