Nancy Pickard
Nancy Pickard, creator of the acclaimed Jenny Cain mystery series, won the Anthony Award for "Say No to Murder, " a Macavity Award for "Marriage Is Murder, " and two Agatha Awards for Best Novel, for “Bum Steer” (1990) and “I.O.U.” (1991). A former reporter and editor, she is a past president of Sisters in Crime. She splits her time between Kansas and Florida.
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Julie Garwood
The Virgin of Small Plains will keep you up all night. Nancy Pickard’s intelligent, suspenseful storytelling never disappoints.
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The Virgin of Small Plains (4)
Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father’s pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around her. Even dead, she is the mo…
The Scent of Rain and Lightning (1)
Rose, Kansas, is a quiet town poised between the orderly and the unpredictable, where a terrible secret lies long dormant. . .until it vengefully stirs to life one fateful day. Young English teacher Jody Linder wakes up one morning to find her three intimidating rancher uncles on her doorstep. They bring shocking news: …
The Blue Corn Murders (0)
In The 27-Ingredient Chili con Carne Murders Pickard carried forward the Eugenia Potter series created by the late Virginia Rich (The Cooking School Murders, etc.). In this second story based on Rich’s notes, Pickard ably blends Native American history into a modern murder mystery. Genia, a 64-year-old Arizona rancher a…
The Blue Corn Murders (0)
In The 27-Ingredient Chili con Carne Murders Pickard carried forward the Eugenia Potter series created by the late Virginia Rich (The Cooking School Murders, etc.). In this second story based on Rich’s notes, Pickard ably blends Native American history into a modern murder mystery. Genia, a 64-year-old Arizona rancher a…
The Secret Ingredient Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery (0)
Fans of the late Virginia Rich’s Eugenia Potter series (The Nantucket Diet Murders, etc.) will be pleased to learn that Genia is back, cooking and sleuthing up a storm in the coastal town of Devon, R.I., where she’s come for the summer to help various needy family members, notably teenage great-nephew Jason, who may be …
The Truth Hurts (0)
MURDER BY THE BOOK
It’s the most bizarre and frightening proposal true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot has ever received: a killer wants Marie to collaborate with him by becoming his next victim — and writing a book about her own murder. But for Marie, it may be the key to solving her most personal mystery and at last u…
Bum Steer (0)
When Cat Benet inexplicably bequeaths his Kansas ranch to a civic foundation on the condition that his family be barred from the land, Jenny Cain, the foundation’s director turned sleuth, goes to meet Benet, only to find him murdered.
The Whole Truth (0)
“Nancy Pickard pushes at the presumed limits of crime fiction]” said the "Los Angeles Times Book Review, " praising the award-winning creator of the Jenny Cain mysteries. Now, Pickard blurs the line between fiction and reality in a novel of gripping intensity, and premieres a superb new heroine: true-crime author Marie…
Generous Death (0)
As director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain is privy to the charitable intentions of the town’s wealthiest citizens. There’s eccentric old Arnie Culverson, who’s promised millions to the local art museum. Who’s found there one bright winter morning, neatly tucked into a priceless antique Chinese bed. …
Say No to Murder (0)
Jenny Cain was thrilled about the Liberty Harbor Restoration, a picturesque collection of shops, museums and restaurants. But when a runaway truck barreled into the project committee, it seemed someone in Port Frederick was out to sink Liberty Harbor. Then a wooden cross raised in unholy wrath made the message clear. Mu…
