The Edge of the Crazies

by Jamie Harrison, Justin Price (Read by)

Overview

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. HC: Hyperion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798874881221
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	11/05/2024
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

What People are Saying About This

James Crumley

I absolutely loved it.

Editorial Reviews

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. (May)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

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.

Library Journal

"A mdaly original debut."—New York Times Book Review

"I absolutely loved it."—James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss

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