AN OBVIOUS FACT Is the twelfth book in the series about Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire. I have read other books in the series and have enjoyed them, as I enjoyed the TV series on AMC (now on Netflix). This book, though, is both good and not so much.

The good:

Craig Johnson writes very good dialogue.

Johnson includes lots of interesting trivia.

In AN OBVIOUS FACT, a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle plays a part. I used to edit MRAP manuals for the army.

The not so good:

Not that a women can’t be tough, but Johnson seems to try a little too hard to make Vic, Longmire's undersheriff, both tough and feminine and expert at everything she does. She comes across as unreal.

All the bad guys are also caricatures.

Therefore, the story was a sleeper for me.