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Love and rodeos, land and greed. When the bodies of an environmental lawyer and his lover are found bobbing inside a tent in a reservoir, Jules at first assumes jealousy, but follows the evidence through the intricacies of mining law, rodeos and explosions, to greed, and a proposed resort in the Crazy Mountains.;Opens June 21, continues through July 1993. Jamie Harrison’s first novel, As Jules begins to investigate the murder, he uncovers a suspicious land development deal involving the dead lawyer and many others, including Hugh, a suave British director who’s planning a movie that threatens to bring all of Blue Deer to a complete stop; Slyvia, the lawyer’s ex, who’s having an affair with Huge; Everett, a local boy who left town and made good; and Diane, a sexy blonde to whose dubious charms Jules succumbs: “She’s like a mob car -- you get in, and all the locks go down.”; As if the impending movie shoot isn’t bad enough, the annual rodeo threatens to drive everyone in town batty. Tempers flare as out-of-towners try to be cowboys, as true locals attempt ridiculous heroics, and multiple murders ignite the town in the midst of amorous goings-on. Jules is as charming as ever, and readers who enjoyed the hijinks in Jamie Harrison’s first novel will love
About the author
JAMIE HARRISON has lived in Montana for more than thirty years. She is the author of the Jules Clement novels, as well as the novels The Center of Everything and The Widow Nash, the winner of a Reading the West Book Award and a finalist for the High Plains Book Award.
