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Former Sheriff Jules Clement returns in this all-new entry 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 archaeologist and private investigator. He’s a mostly happy man: he’s a new father, and he and his wife Caroline are planning to build a house on an idyllic patch of river bottomland. But everything that can go wrong will, in terms of money, love, and murder: the neighbors hire Jules to spy on each other, the county hires him to find out if a road runs over some misplaced bodies in a long abandoned potter’s field, a former priest with a side hustle in extortion ends up very dead, a crew of Russians in fast cars is running amok through the Montana landscape, and an old nemesis returns, pulling Jules back to confront what he''s been avoiding his entire life: the death of his father. Published alongside new editions of the entire series,
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.
Summary
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Awards
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 archaeologist and private investigator. He’s a mostly happy man: he’s a new father, and he and his wife Caroline are building their dream house on an idyllic patch of river bottomland. But everything that can go wrong will, in terms of money, love, and murder. The horrible neighbors enlist Jules to spy on each other. The county hires him to find out if a road runs over some misplaced bodies in a long-abandoned potter’s field. A former priest with a side hustle in extortion ends up very dead. A crew of Russians in fast cars is running amok through the Montana landscape. All this as an old nemesis returns, pulling Jules back to confront what he’s been avoiding his entire life: the death of his father.
Published alongside newly reissued editions of the entire series, The River View is further proof that “you haven’t been west in any meaningful sense until you’ve been to Blue Deer” (The New York Times).
