Going Local

“What seems characteristic of the best present crime writing is surpassingly true of Jamie Harrison: she is creating entertainment and diversion, but she is also writing social history as accurate in its essences as a road map and generating a most admirable work of literature.” —Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times

“You haven’t been west in any meaningful sense until you’ve been to Blue Deer, Montana… Jules rekindles our delight in Ms. Harrison’s offbeat sensibility and tart regional voice.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“Jules is charming, sexy, slightly unstable, and yet at bottom incorruptible… He was born to keep the peace in Blue Deer, the sort of town that rascals grow misty-eyed over.” —David Delman, Philadelphia Inquirer

"As in her first mystery, The Edge of the Crazies, Harrison mingles dark and (sometimes strange) comic elements to good effect. She is a dab hand at creating an assortment of characters, tossing them together, giving them something to squabble over and setting them loose--and if some end up dead, well, that just gives droll, intelligent Jules a way to earn his keep." ––Publishers Weekly (starred)