Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard (* 1945 ) is an American crime writer .

She studied journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia . After graduating, she worked as a reporter and editor. She has been publishing detective novels since 1980 .

Awards

• 1988: Macavity Award for the novel Marriage Is Murder
• 1988: Anthony Award for the novel Say No to Murder
• 1990: Agatha Award for the novel Bum Steer
• 1990: Agatha Award for the short story Out of Africa
• 1990: Anthony Award for the short story Afraid All the Time
• 1990: Macavity Award for the short story Afraid All the Time
• 1991: Agatha Award for the novel IOU
• 1991: Macavity Award for the short story Afraid All the Time
• 1991: Shamus Award for the short story Dust Devil
• 1992: Macavity Award for the novel IOU
• 2006: Agatha Award for the novel The Virgin of Small Plains (German Snow Blossom )
• 2018: Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement

Works

Jenny Cain series

• Generous death
• Say no to murder
• No body
• Marriage Is Murder
• Dead Crazy
• Bum Steer
• IOU (Eng. Anything but an accident )
• But I Would not Want to Die There (dt. But die I will not here )
• Confession
• Twilight

Eugenia Potter series

• The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders (together with Virginia Rich )
• The Blue Corn Murders
• The Secret Ingredient Murders

Marie Lightfoot series

• The Whole Truth
• Ring of Truth
• The Truth Hurts

Single novels

• Naked Came the Phoenix
• The Virgin of the Small Plains ( Snow Blossom )

Non-fiction

• Seven Steps on the Writer's Path

Web links

• Literature by and about Nancy Pickard in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography in English on consumerhelpweb.com