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Aug.24.2009
Set in New Mexico's Native lands, Sandi Ault's storytelling "crackles with life and novelty."* Now, rough-and-ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild comes across a secret society with rituals as chilling as the desert night air... It was a magnificent sight that Jamaica hopes...
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May.19.2009
Avery Baker was once a New York designer, but inheriting her aunt’s old Maine cottage has led her down a new career path in home renovation. Finding a property’s hidden potential has rewards and challenges—especially when a mystery surfaces behind the walls...  Home renovation is never easy,...
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Mar.01.2009
When a snowstorm sweeps the canyon during her search for a wounded mountain lion, BLM agent Jamaica Wild must take refuge in an old Indian School, where children were "Americanized" after being taken from their homes. Exploring, Jamaica discovers the body of an elderly Anglo woman. As...
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Aug.27.2008
Elliot Freed sinks all his money into Comedy Tonight, his own all-comedy movie theatre. But when a customer dies during a screening of "Young Frankenstein," and it's discovered his popcorn was poisoned, Elliot takes it personally and decides to investigate.
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Aug.27.2008
Elliot Freed is the owner of Comedy Tonight, New Jersey's only all-comedy movie theatre. When he gets to meet one of his comedy idols, Harry Lillis of the team Lillis and Townes, Elliot is thrilled--and more thrilled when both Lillis and Les Townes show up at his theatre for a screening of their...
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Jul.28.2008
Avery Baker was once a New York textile designer, but inheriting her aunt’s old Maine cottage has led her down a new career path—home renovation. Finding a property’s hidden potential has rewards and challenges—the rewards being fun with DIY, and with Derek Ellis, her hunky handyman. The challenges...
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Jul.11.2008
Wild Indigo introduced rough and ready Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild. Now she returns—deployed to a wildfire on the Southern Ute reservation, where a puzzling plea whispered by a burning man points to a mystery more menacing than murder… When wildfire erupts on the Southern Ute...
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Jul.11.2008
On a reservation near Taos, New Mexico, BLM Agent Jamaica Wild witnesses a Tanoah Pueblo man being trampled to death by stampeding buffalo. The tribe declares the incident a suicide, the FBI concurs, and the body is hurried to ceremony before the sun can go down on his spirit.
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Feb.21.2008
Stoneham, New Hampshire, was a dying town until community leaders invited booksellers to open shop.  Now, its streets are lined with bookstores--and paved with murder… When she moved to Stoneham, city-slicker Tricia Miles was met with friendly faces.  And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she...