The Edge of the Crazies - Softcover

Harrison, Jamie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786860855 ISBN 13: 9780786860852

Publisher: Hyperion, 1995

Synopsis

Jules Clement, sheriff of Blue Deer, Montana, suspects the victim's wife when a local writer is shot, but she is found dead and Jules is faced with numerous suspects in a mystery filled with humor and local color.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Blue Deer, Mont., cradled between the Absaroka and the aptly named Crazy mountain ranges, makes a fine setting for this debut mystery that is by turns side-splitting and dark. Early one Sunday morning, screenwriter George Blackwater types a script idea on his PC that smacks of autobiographical, and hungover, self-absorption: "Crazy writer, victim of tragic error of youth, is dispossessed by soulless brother and bitch mother, embittered by fat wife." Moments later, a sniper's bullets waste George's monitor-and George. Enter Sheriff Jules Clement, whose first suspect is George's unlovable, oft-betrayed wife. But she disappears, and, by the time Jules finds her, is dead. Other suspects include George's brother, also a screenwriter and skilled seducer, whose hatred for George was generously reciprocated. A third party despises them both. As the body count rises, Jules, whose story this really is, contemplates the death of his father, also a sheriff, in the line of duty 20 years before and learns that George's high-school sweetheart died in a suspicious accident around that same time. Another corpse is found before the mystery's complicated, none-too-startling finale. Jules may often seem more surly than convivial, but that's a reasonable response to the doings in Blue Deer, a town harboring enough venality for more Jules Clement mysteries. Author tour.
Copyright 1995 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0786860855
• ISBN 13: 9780786860852
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384