The Edge of the Crazies - Softcover

Harrison, Jamie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312959427 ISBN 13: 9780312959425

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0312959427
• ISBN 13: 9780312959425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324