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It�s holiday season in Absaroka County and Sheriff Walt Longmire gets personal in this delightful collection of four short stories from New York Times�bestselling author Craig Johnson. Full of Longmire�s dry wit and good heart, Christmas in Absaroka County is a holiday must-have for every Longmire and Craig Johnson fan, and it also includes the first chapter of The Cold Dish, the first novel in the Longmire Mystery Series. Readers glimpse a softer side of Sheriff Walt Longmire as he grapples with the death of his wife, Martha, and his sometimes turbulent but ever-loving relationship with his daughter, Cady. In these four stories��Ministerial Aid,� �Slick-Tongued Devil,� �Toys for Tots,� and �Unbalanced� (three of which have been sent to Johnson�s fans over the years in the author�s �Post-it� e-mails)�Walt is alternately at his best and his worst. He helps a somewhat delusional elderly victim of domestic abuse while sporting a bathrobe and a mean hangover on New Year�s Day. He�s sidelined by grief when his wife�s obituary reappears in the paper and there�s an unexpected knock on his door two days before Christmas. He strives to help even those who don�t want it when he picks up a young female hitchhiker, and he�s forced into some last-minute Christmas shopping by the Greatest Legal Mind of Our Time, during which he might just end up saving a young Navy chaplain�s Christmas.