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PROFILE

CCraig Johnson has received both critical and popular praise for his novels The Cold Dish (Viking/Penguin), Death Without Company (Viking/Penguin), and Kindness Goes Unpunished (Viking/Penguin) with starred reviews in Kirkus and Booklist. All three novels have been made Booksense selections by the Independent Booksellers Association and Killer Picks by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. The Cold Dish was a DILYS Award Finalist and was a Booksense Paperback Summer Pick for 2006. It will be translated into French in 2009. Death Without Company was selected by Booklist as one of the top-ten mysteries of 2006, won the Wyoming Historical Society's fiction book of the year, and was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Bookseller's Association's Book of the Year. The short story, Old Indian Trick, won the Tony Hillerman Mystery Short Story Award and appeared in Cowboys & Indians Magazine. Kindness Goes Unpunished, the third in the Walt Longmire series, was number 38 on the American Bookseller's Association's hardcover best seller list. Another Man's Moccasins, the fourth in the Walt Longmire series, will be released by Viking on June 2, 2008. It has been made a Booksense pick and has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a Featured Pick. All four novels have been recorded by Recorded Books with George Guidall reading.