Yes this story won many awards and spawned a tv series. Even reading it over again it touches the heart in so many ways.  The first time to meet Walt Longmire, Henry Standing Bear, Vic, Lucian and all the characters of North central Wyoming. The descriptive prose is worth the trip, but the mystery is great.  Somebody is killing a gang of rapists and Walt must stop them even though most people feel the same way. But Walt is damaged goods himself and he meets a woman that could help him. If only he could climb out of his own depression long enough. The two threads of the story twine around and around pulling Walt away. Until we meet the old Cheyenne in a mythic masterpiece on a mountain side in a blizzard.  Some of the best poetic writing I have ever read. In the end you long for more and the Longmire series begins.  Too bad the tv series is not as good.  But the books are excellent one after the other.