Jamie Harrison, Author Hyperion Books $32.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6085-2
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...
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Jamie Harrison, Author Hyperion Books $29.45 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6108-8
Two corpses, a birthday and a hangover only add to the difficulties already facing sheriff Jules Clement, as Blue Deer, Mont., fills up with tourists for the annual summertime Wrangle. Environmental lawyer Otto Scobey and Bonnie Siskowitz, a local...
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Jamie Harrison, Author Hyperion Books $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6260-3
Given center stage in Harrison's latest Jules Clement tale (The Edge of the Crazies; Going Local) is the poor behavior of many of the leading families of Blue Deer, Mont. That many of these people, including Sheriff Clement, are also related only...
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Jamie Harrison, Author Hyperion Books $30.45 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6422-5
So many things are happening in the Montana town of Blue Deer as winter slides gradually into spring: Sheriff Jules Clement is falling in love and seriously thinking of quitting his job; his best friends, Peter and Alice, are finally getting married,
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Jamie Harrison, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (324p) ISBN 978-0-312-95942-5
Set in small-town Montana, Harrison's debut mystery concerns the possibly deadly tensions between local residents and refugees from Hollywood. (Aug.)
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Jamie Harrison. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61902-928-6
Debut novelist Harrison paints a lovely and memorable portrait of a desperate woman’s flight to a new life. In late 1904, Leda Cordelia Dulcinea Remfrey has been summoned to Seattle to attend to her dying syphilitic father, Walton. Dulcy must go,...
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Jamie Harrison. Counterpoint, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6400-9234-1
An undercurrent of tragedy runs through Harrison’s brilliant latest (after The Widow Nash), about the effects of a brain injury on a 42-year-old Montana woman. Three months after a bicycle accident, Polly Schuster suffers from migraines and short-ter
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Jamie Harrison. Counterpoint, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-64009-632-5
Harrison’s riveting fifth adventure for Montana PI Jules Clement (after 2000’s Blue Deer Thaw) is worth the wait. In 1972, when Jules was a child, his father, the sheriff of Blue Deer, Mont., was gunned down during a traffic stop. Patrick Bell was...
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