Books

	WILD PENANCE Author: Sandi Ault Published: February 2, 2010 by Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Series Name: WILD Mystery Series Category: Southwest Mystery Main Character: Jamaica Wild-a BLM agent, Mountain-the wolf, Momma Anna-her teacher, Kerry-her boyfriend WILD PENANCE, the latest in the WILD Mystery Series, opens with a dark and diabolical scene: a man, tied to a cross, his loincloth catching in the wind as he plummets down into the Rio Grande Gorge to his death. That is, if he wasn’t dead already. Rough-and-ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, who witnesses the sinister event, sets out to determine whether a secret society with rituals as chilling as the desert night air might have been at the heart of this. Click for more info.

	WILD SORROW Author: Sandi Ault Published: March 3, 2009 by Berkley Prime Crime/Penguin Series Name: WILD Mystery Series Category: Southwest Mystery Main Character: Jamaica Wild-a BLM agent, Mountain-the wolf, Momma Anna-her teacher, Kerry-her boyfriend WILD INDIGO and WILD INFERNO introduced rough-and-ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild. Now, as the icy chill of winter looms, Jamaica stumbles across a frozen corpse and a hate crime with disturbing roots in the history of the Pueblo. While tracking a wounded mountain lion on a desolate canyon rim, Jamaica and her wolf, Mountain, come across an old Indian School--a place where children were "Americanized" after being taken from their homes. When a snowstorm sweeps the canyon, Jamaica is forced to take refuge in the abandoned school. Click for more info.

	WILD INFERNO Author: Sandi Ault Published: February 8, 2008 by Berkley Prime Crime Publishing Series Name: WILD Mystery Series Category: Southwest Mystery Main Character: Jamaica Wild-a BLM agent, Mountain-the wolf, Momma Anna-her teacher, Kerry-her boyfriend Sandi Ault impressed critics and readers alike with her stellar first novel, Wild Indigo, a richly imagined mystery set in Northern New Mexico. The New York Times Book Review raved, calling Wild Indigo a “striking debut” with “thrills galore.” Now, Ault offers her highly anticipated follow-up, WILD INFERNO (Berkley Prime Crime Hardcover; February 2008; $23.95), which again features rough and ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild and her memorable pet wolf, Mountain. Click for more info.

	WILD INDIGO Author: Sandi Ault Published: January 2, 2007 by Berkley Prime Crime Publishing Series Name: WILD Mystery Series Category: Southwest Mystery Main Character: Jamaica Wild-a BLM agent, Mountain-the wolf, Momma Anna-her teacher, Kerry-her boyfriend Sandi Ault exploded onto the mystery scene with her dazzling debut, WILD INDIGO (Berkley Prime Crime Hardcover; January 2006; $23.95), which received the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2008. The first in an exciting new mystery series set in Northern New Mexico, Ault’s novel introduces Bureau of Land Management Agent Jamaica Wild. Far from a cookie-cutter heroine, Jamaica is a sleuth as unique and memorable as Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak or Nevada Barr’s Anna Pigeon. Click for more info.