Nancy L Pickard

Seven Steps on the Writer's Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment

The Virgin of Small Plains

The Virgin of Small Plains

The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders

The Blue Corn Murders

Mom, Apple Pie and Murder : A Collection of New Mysteries for Mother's Day

Mom, Apple Pie and Murder : A Collection of New Mysteries for Mother's Day

The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard (born 1945) is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the

The Secret Ingredient Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery

A DINNER TO DIE FORSummoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome her. And soon Genia is busily preparing for the tasting party that sh...

The Blue Corn Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery (Eugenia Potter Mysteries)

Kernels of Truth....When Eugenia Potter stumbles upon some ancient pottery shards on her ranch, she feels a profound connection with the past.And a deep desire to learn more about the relics.Now, she's heeding the call of her soul--by visiting an archaeological camp amid the magnificent cliff dwelli...

The Scent of Rain and Lightning: A Novel

One beautiful summer afternoon, Jody Linder receives shocking news: The man convicted of murdering her father is being released from prison and returning to the small town of Rose, Kansas. It has been twenty-three years since that stormy night when her father was shot and killed and her mother disap...

I.O.U. (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 7)

After lying for years in a coma in a psychiatric hospital, Jenny's mother dies. At her funeral someone whispers a mysterious message in Jenny's ear. Jenny tries to discover the events in her family's past that led to her mother's mental collapse, but she is stonewalled by an old boy network.

Marriage Is Murder

Jenny Cain and police detective Geof Bushfield already had pre-nuptial jitters. Then a sudden wave of domestic violence rocked placid Port Frederick - in just two weeks, the husbands of three battered wives were shot dead. Homicide was all too familiar to Geof, but this was enough to make him want t...

Generous Death (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 1)

As director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain is privy to the charitable intentions of the town's wealthiest citizens. And when some of these donors end up murdered, Jenny Cain must find the killer--especially since a rhyme placed at the crime scene states that Jenny will be the nex...

The Whole Truth

"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-...

Ring of Truth (Marie Lightfoot)

Sex, violence, evil, and betrayal -- the shocking murder case splashed across the Florida headlines has all the right elements for true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot's next bestseller. And tell the tale she does, in a book that reveals the secrets of a love affair gone fatally wrong. But there are di...