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The Edge Of The Crazies [Mass Market Paperback]

Jamie Harrison (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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August 15, 1996
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.

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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.

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (August 15, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312959427
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312959425
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,746,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Blue Deer, Where the Weird are Welcome, November 2, 2000
This review is from: The Edge Of The Crazies (Mass Market Paperback)
For those of us whose every day is off-kilter, Jamie Harrison has created the ideal town with the perfect sheriff: Jules Clement, Ph.D., of Blue Deer, Montana. Home after a decade of archeological exploration, Jules finds that the duties of a small-town sheriff are more dangerous than excavating in Tunisia or Turkey, because in Montana he has to cope with sibling rivalry, nouveau riche newcomers, duck killers, naked men peeing in the town park, and memories of his father's murder twenty years earlier. Walking on the wild side has never been better.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific, July 10, 2000
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Jean Polen (WEST CHESTER, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Edge Of The Crazies (Mass Market Paperback)
Funny, tough, startling, believable -- the characters and the setting are likeable, the plot is accessible, and Ms. Harrison writes very well. It's much too much fun to discover Jules Clement on your own to tell you more, and the book is well worth reading. This is a mystery to treasure.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Went Directly Onto My Keeper Shelf, June 3, 2001
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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!
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GEORGE Blackwater made slight puffing sounds as he wandered down Fiske Avenue. Read the first page
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Blue Deer, New York, Blue Bat, George Blackwater, Jane Semple, Ray Blackwater, Absaroka County, Jules Clement, Mona Blackwater, Lonnie Biddle, Land Cruiser, Los Angeles, Ada Santoz, Sheriff Clement, Ansel Clement, Baird Hotel, Clyde City, San Francisco, Roger Schotz, Ann Arbor, John Dribnitz, Memorial Day, Trout Unlimited, Axel Scotti, Crazy Mountains
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