Book festival favorite Craig Johnson will be making his 12th visit to Tucson, this time with "Return to Sender," the 21st installment in his bestselling Longmire series. Some Longmire fans read the books. Many more watch the TV series on Paramount, and some even attend "Longmire Days" every summer in Buffalo, Wyoming. Johnson himself lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26.
Awards: Tucson Festival of Books Founder's Award, Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, Novel Observateur Bibliops Prix du Roman Noir, Prix 813, Wyoming Historical Society Prize for Fiction, Rocky Award (Left Coast Crime),