The Edge of the Crazies

“A sparkling, caustic first novel… In this madly original debut, Ms. Harrison speaks up in a fresh, animated voice to say something worth saying about the festering animosities of small minds cooped up in small towns.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“The Edge of the Crazies is written with a wonderfully mature sense of humor, full of wise and perceptive character studies, and capped by a dazzling plot. I absolutely loved it. Hell, I wouldn’t mind living in Blue Deer, Montana.” —James Crumley, author of The Mexican Tree Duck

“The Edge of the Crazies is a fine and textured mystery that brings us a new star in detective fiction…. Jamie Harrison has made southwestern Montana her own, and Jules Clement is its conscience, in what is by any measure a compelling debut.” —Richard Currey, author of Crossing Over and Wars of Heaven

“Jamie Harrison is a strong new voice writing intelligently from and about the American West.” —Dan O’Brien, author of In the Center of the Nation and Eminent Domain

“How precisely this book chronicles the nastiness, the incestuousness and plain rottenness that can set in and harm a small town in America — the pathetic and failed attempt of the human heart to low-vault a minor, trifling obstacle, such as happiness or caring-for-one-another…. This is a good book.” —Rick Bass, author of Winter and The Ninemile Wolves