Daughter of the Morning Star

When Lolo Long's niece Jaya starts receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls in Sheriff Walt Longmire to help. Jaya Long is a basketball prodigy following in the footsteps of an older sister who disappeared a year earlier, one more victim of the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women that haunts Indian Country. Longmire's investigation is haunted by something more than the human threat against Jaya, and Henry Standing Bear serves as both guide and lethal backup in the most mythically resonant case of the series.

George Guidall's work on the Walt Longmire series is among the finest long-running narrator-character partnerships in audiobooks. His voice carries the Wyoming landscape the way light carries through mountain air, and his performance of Longmire's internal monologue, dry and compassionate and alert, is inseparable from how most readers experience these novels. At just over eight hours, Daughter of the Morning Star addresses the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis with the combination of respect and righteous anger the subject deserves.