Nancy Pickard is a four-time Edgar Award nominee, most recently for her Ballantine debut, The Virgin of Small Plains. She is the winner of the Anthony Award, the Macavity Award, and three Agatha Awards. Her short stories have also won numerous accolades. Pickard has been a national board member of the Mystery Writers of America and president of Sisters in Crime, and she is a member of PEN. She lives in Merriam, Kansas.
“Pickard has the storytelling gift.”—The New York Times Book
Review
“[Nancy] Pickard writes richly textured fiction about families and
relationships, about hatred and lust and love, about loyalty and
betrayal, and most of all about the corrosive power of
secrets.”—The Boston Globe
“A novel that simultaneously qualifies as a gripping read, a master
character study and as literary . . . exceedingly rare.”—The Kansas
City Star
“Pickard’s tales of Kansas life are filled with gravitas and
small-town drama. . . . The Scent of Rain and Lightning seems
certain to earn her a much-deserved larger audience.”—The Denver
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