Two of modern fiction's best-known lawmen, Sheriff Walt Longmire and former-sheriff Cork O'Connor, will compare notes in this arresting start to the 2025 Tucson Festival of Books. Say howdy to their two creators, Craig Johnson and William Kent Krueger!
This session is presented by TMC Health's Gary Kartchner, Interim CEO at Northern Cochise Community Hospital
Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is a two-time recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella "Spirit of Steamboat" was the first One Book Wyoming selection....
William Kent Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, a former sheriff and a man of mixed heritage—part Irish and part Ojibwe. Krueger has received many awards including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize....