Bloom of Bones

Description:

A rancher and poet in remote Eastern Montana sees his life overturned when a long-buried corpse (a murder victim from his childhood) erodes out of a hillside on his ranch.

Review Quotes: "Simply riveting. Always lyrical, often wise, filled with vitality, and the promise that love and loyalty can surmount the darkness in our lives. I couldn't put it down."

Mark Spragg

Where Rivers Change Direction

"A progressing love story and an unsolved murder-A Bloom of Bones is articulate, occasionally heartbreaking, and all the way fascinating."

William Kittredge

Hole in the Sky

"With broad strokes painting an eastern Montana landscape and flashes of insight about the people who cling to its land, Jones rides . . . into the hard country populated by the best of Western writers. Jones has written a most American of novels, bristling with hard truths."

Kirkus Reviews

"Jones's novel seems to have emerged from an older, more elemental world, a mythic, almost biblical place where it's taken for granted that the sins of the fathers will be visited on the sons."

Library Journal (starred review)

"This is an exquisitely crafted book, and one to be savored."

Foreword Magazine