Jamie Harrison

"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."—The New York Times Book Review Blue Deer, Montana, may seem like a tranquil town nestled at the foot of the...

It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. But all that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's...

In this compelling family drama set against the dangerous beauty of the Yellowstone, Polly is still trying to get her life back on track after a recent accident, not always trusting reality....

Former sheriff Jules Clement returns in this new installment of the celebrated mystery series, set once again in the wild, strange, windy town of Blue Deer, Montana, where your neighbors or the tourists can be just as deadly as the weather Jules Clement is back in Blue Deer, working as an...

"Blue Deer Thaw is a delight."—The Seattle Times "The fourth book in the Blue Deer series is another gem."—The Washington Post Alcohol and art, love and death. When a woman freezes to death in a snowdrift, Jules follows the mystery back to the newly renovated Sacajawea Hotel, where he's...

"You haven't been west in any meaningful sense until you've been to Blue Deer, Montana . . . Rekindles our delight in Ms. Harrison's offbeat sensibility and tart regional voice." —The New York Times Book Review "What seems characteristic of the best crime writing is surpassingly true of Jamie...

"Harrison takes her time resolving these criminal matters, allowing us to linger in Blue Deer long enough to learn its history, drink in the scenery and laugh at the kinds and quirks of its idiosyncratic residents. No wonder the world-weary Jules came running back home the first chance he...