Blue Deer mysteries

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A screenwriter in a small Montana town jots down ideas for a story featuring a novelist at war with his wife, his mother and his brother. The next moment he is shot. Sheriff Jules Clement begins his probe with the wife, only to see her shot. Not an auspicious beginning.

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"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...