Wild Sorrow by Sandi Ault
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- Pub. Date: March 2009
- 304pp
- Sales Rank: 96,687
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Hardcover, 304pp
- Sales Rank: 96,687
- ISBN-13: 9780425225837
- ISBN: 0425225836
Synopsis
The Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author returns with BLM agent Jamaica Wild.
In the midst of tracking a wounded mountain lion, Jamaica is forced to seek refuge in an old abandoned Indian School when a snowstorm hits. Exploring, Jamaica discovers the desecrated body of an elderly Anglo woman, frozen on the floor. After the storm, the FBI takes over the murder investigation, but Jamaica remains haunted by the frozen woman. As the dead of winter settles, arctic temperatures threaten the survival of the mountain lions-but time reveals that there is something far more dangerous tracking Jamaica...
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Fans of the late Tony Hillerman will embrace Ault's outstanding third mystery to feature Jamaica Wild, a resource agent for the Bureau of Land Management in Taos, N.M. (after 2008's Wild Inferno). When Jamaica seeks shelter during a blizzard in Pueblo Peña at the abandoned San Pedro de Arbués Indian School for her injured horse, Rooster, and her wolf companion, Mountain, she stumbles on a terrifying sight-the frozen corpse of Cassie Morgan, a strangled Anglo woman from whose neck hangs a sign in red crayon that reads "I am not an Indian." Though Jamaica is horrified to learn that Cassie was a former school matron "remembered for depriving, humiliating, and beating the Indian children," she continues to help the FBI investigation into what is deemed a hate crime. Outraged by Jamaica's interference, the twisted killer targets both Jamaica and Mountain. Ault's wildlife expertise and knowledge of Tanoah culture enhance a poignant plot. (Mar.)
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Sandi Ault a former journalist and newspaper editor, lives in Lyons, Colorado, with her husband, wolf and cat. She teaches writing workshops and classes. She is also a volunteer firefighter and a Colorado Resource/Fire Information officer for wildfires.
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deep vivid look at the life of a Pueblo inside an entreating outdoors? mysteryby harstan
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January 13, 2009:
Bureau of Land Management resource protection agent Jamaica Wild is the liaison with the Tanoah Pueblo. A rancher complains that a wolf has attacked his sheep, but Jamaica believes the predator is probably a mountain lion. With her friend the semi-civilized wolf Mountain, she follows the wounded animal?s bloody trail while expecting a blizzard to hit the area shortly. When she reaches some ruins, she takes shelter from the weather inside the ruins of the San Pedro De Arbues Indian School.
Inside Jamaica finds the body of a woman whose hair was scalped. Later she learns the corpse is Cassie Morgan, an elderly Anglo woman who was a matron of the Indian School that abducted children from their ?savage? parents to Americanize them through corporal punishment and substandard food, health care, and shelter. After she reports the homicide, Jamaica sees an ATV and gives chase. From that moment on attempts are made to frighten Jamaica off the investigation, but when that fails, murder attempts follow.
The protagonist is brave refusing to allow thugs to run her off the case though she is a bit fearful even with her faithful companion Mountain having her back. The whodunit is exciting because no one, not even the heroine, knows why she has become under siege. Sandi Ault provides readers with a deep vivid look at the life of a Pueblo inside an entreating outdoors? mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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