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Edge Of The Crazies, The: In The Big Sky Country Of Montana, The Wild Life Can Kill You
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Product Description
Perched at the foot of Montana's Crazy Mountains, Blue Deer is a small town boasting an uneasy mix of longtime residents and hotshots from both coasts looking to possess their own piece of the Big Sky. Local sheriff Jules Clement manages the town's tensions fairly well....until someone blasts a hole in screenwriter George Blackwater's office window--and in George himself. As more of the town's prominent citizens start turning up dead, the pressure on Jules keeps rising. It starts to look like this rookie sheriff may not survive the next election....if he lives to see it.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1222643 in Books
- Published on: 1996-07-02
- Original language: English
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 324 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Set in small-town Montana, Harrison's debut mystery concerns the possibly deadly tensions between local residents and refugees from Hollywood.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
First novelist Harrison offers a microcosm set in Blue Deer, Montana, where a murder attempt shatters the usual calm. Jules Clement, archeologist-turned-sheriff, eyes the crime scene and then questions the wounded victim?philandering, alcoholic screenwriter George Blackwater. The Northern Exposure-like list of suspects includes his wild-eyed wife, his best-selling author brother, and a peevish ex-employee. When Jules subsequently finds the wife's body, the list grows longer. Harrison's stylistic prose, studded with spots of color and embellished by sometimes humorous characterization, lacks consistency and turns sluggish. For the persistent reader.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"I absolutely loved it."--James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss
Customer Reviews
The Edge of the Crazies
I first found this series at the library, and I have bought them all because I like them so well, I want to be able to introduce friends to them.
Literate, funny, the characters are eccentric and believable. And for all those woman who love Martha Grimes' Richard Jury, get ready for Jules. Catches the flavor of a small town and Montana.
Excellent.
Jamie Harrison is without peer - more novels about Jules please!
Went Directly Onto My Keeper Shelf
Jamie Harrison writes more into the first 80 pages than most authors put into an entire book. Characters, scenery, emotions, undercurrents and tensions between characters, they are all there. In a world of a lot of ho-hum writing, Harrison really stands out head and shoulders above the rest! I am reading her second book in the series, GOING LOCAL, right now, and it's another excellent book proving that the first was no fluke. For a book like this, I wish the ratings included more stars. It's just that good! Get it, read it, and put it on your keeper shelf. I'll be reading this series more than once!
