Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard (born September 19, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and began writing when she was 35 years old.

She is frequently a panelist at the Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave, a convention for mystery writers and mystery fans in Manhattan, Kansas.

In 2017 her novel The Scent of Rain and Lightning was adapted into a film of the same name.

Published works

Non-series novels

2001 Naked Came the Phoenix (serial novel) Marcia Talley, ed. ISBN 0312251947(with Nevada Barr, Mary Jane Clark, Diana Gabaldon, J. A. Jance, Faye Kellerman, Laurie R. King, Val McDermid, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Anne Perry, J. D. Robb and Lisa Scottoline)

2006 The Virgin of Small Plains ISBN 0345470990

2010 The Scent of Rain and Lightning ISBN 978-0345471017

Short story anthologies

1994 Nancy Pickard presents Malice Domestic 3 ISBN 0671738283

1999 Storm Warnings ISBN 0786218118

1999 The First Lady Murders ISBN 0671014447

1999 Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder ISBN 0425168905

Non-fiction

2003 Seven Steps on the Writer's Path (with Lynn Lott) ISBN 034545524X