Lynn Lott, Author, Nancy Pickard, Author, Nancy Pickard, Joint Author Ballantine Books $24.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-345-45524-6
Based on the intriguing idea that writers pass through a sequence of seven identifiable stages when composing, this volume is a rewarding combination of motivational tool and writer's guide. Lott, a writer/therapist, and Pickard, author of the Jenny
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Nancy Pickard, Author . Pocket $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-671-88797-1
The appearance of The Whole Truth
a year ago jolted readers and thrilled critics. Pickard, a popular writer of conventional mysteries, took off on a risky, imaginative tangent, making her protagonist, Marie Lightfoot, an author of true crime books,
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Nancy Pickard, Author Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-78261-0
Beginning with a nasty shock and ending with a nastier one, the ninth Jenny Cain mystery (after But I Wouldn't Want to Die There ) sets the plucky amateur sleuth from Port Frederick, Mass., on a complex, somewhat contrived, emotionally demanding...
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Nancy Pickard, Author Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72330-9
In the eighth Jenny Cain mystery, Anthony and Agatha Awards-winner Pickard ( I.O.U. ) takes the former charitable foundation director from her home and husband in Port Frederick, Mass., to her beloved Big Apple. Unfortunately, the trip is...
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Nancy Pickard, Author Delacorte Press $18 (296p) ISBN 978-0-385-30227-2
Using notes and recipes of the late Virginia Rich ( The Cooking School Murders), Pickard, author of the Jenny Caine mysteries, serves up a fourth satisfying, chatty tale about master cook and amateur sleuth Eugenia Potter. In her home in New England,
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Nancy Pickard, Author Pocket Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68040-4
Jenny Cain, last seen in Dead Crazy , finds herself far from home when the Port Frederick, Mass., Civic Foundation is named heir to a cattle ranch in Kansas by wealthy rancher Cat Benet. As director of the foundation, Jenny is summoned to the dying...
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Nancy Pickard, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (276p) ISBN 978-0-684-18761-7
Last seen in Marriage Is Murder , Jenny Cain, goodhearted but admirably disciplined director of the Port Frederick, Mass., Civic Foundation, skillfully utilizes intuition and steely nerves to solve two brutal slayings. When MaryDell Paine, wealthy...
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Nancy Pickard, Author Scribner Book Company $14.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-684-18760-0
Jenny Cain, altruistic, bright and rich, is about to marry her policeman-lover Geof Bushfield, when events in this sprightly and intriguing mystery make them pause before taking their final vows. An inexplicable rash of domestic violence has hit the
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Nancy Pickard, Author Scribner Book Company $13.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-684-18593-4
Like Pickard's Generous Death and Say No to Murder, the third story featuring Jenny Cain is fast-moving, sparked by humor and an unusual plot. Jenny, still serving as the head of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, relates events that stun the...
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Nancy Pickard, Author Atria Books $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-671-88795-7
In a sensational change of pace, Anthony Award-winner Pickard sets aside her Jenny Cain series (Twilight, Confession, etc.) for a fast-moving thriller that literally starts with a bang. True-crime writer Marie Lightfoot is covering the murder trial...
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Nancy Pickard, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-78290-0
The latest installment in the Jenny Cain series finds the foundation director enmeshed in small-town politics as an environmental controversy leads to murder. (Aug.)
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Nancy Pickard, Author . Ballantine $25 (319p) ISBN 978-0-345-47101-7
With exquisite sensitivity, Edgar-finalist Pickard (The Virgin of Small Plains
) probes a smoldering cold case involving the Linders, a cattle ranching family that's ruled the small, tight-knit community of Rose, Kans., for generations. One...
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Nancy Pickard, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-345-47099-7
Pickard (Storm Warnings
) probes the truth behind miracles and the tragedies behind lies in this mesmerizing suspense novel set in Kansas. While rounding up newborn calves during a 1987 blizzard, Nathan Shellenberger, sheriff of Small Plains, and...
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Nancy Pickard, Author . S&S/Atria $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1203-2
In Edgar nominee Pickard's third gripping Marie Lightfoot mystery (The Whole Truth; Ring of Truth), the Florida-based true crime writer is working on a book about her parents, civil rights activists in Alabama who disappeared in 1963 when...
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Rosalind Greenberg, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $4.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-671-73828-0
There is a surprising, and refreshing, variety to the 13 stories in this third in a series of mystery short story collections (previous volumes were edited by Elizabeth Peters and Mary Higgins Clark). Some situations here are well beyond Miss Marple'
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Martin Harry Greenberg, Editor, Edward Gorman, Editor Dark Harvest $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-913165-65-2
Inspired by a single premise--``a young woman is found dead on the apartment floor''--this collection of stories has a nice quota of top-notch tales ranging from procedurals to horror to science fiction. In Nancy Pickard's evocative ``The Dead Past,'
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68042-8
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. ``Pickard...
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $4.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-671-68043-5
Amateur sleuth Jenny Cain examines her deceased mother's insanity, investigates the bankruptcy of her family's business and reckons with an attempt on her own life in this multilayered, affecting novel. (Mar.)
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $5.5 (272p) ISBN 978-0-671-72331-6
is the Anthony and Agatha Awards-winner's splendid eighth Jenny Cain mystery. (July)
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Nancy Pickard, read by Tavia Gilbert, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $90 ISBN 978-1-44-174772-3
Tavia Gilbert demonstrates remarkable range in her narration of Pickard’s spine-tingling thriller set in a rural Kansas ranch community, where mysterious secrets surrounding the wealthy and prominent Linder family come to light in chilling detail....
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Pickard, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Atria Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68041-1
The layered plot of the latest in the excellent Jenny Cain series ( Say No to Murder ) finds the Port Frederick, Mass., sleuth probing the cause of her recently deceased mother's insanity. Cain discovers that her mother's mental collapse many years...
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Robert F. Mirvish, Author, Pickard, Author Atria Books $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-78271-9
As in her previous nine adventures (most recently, Confession), foundation director Jenny Cain combines can-do toughness and a tender heart. She needs both when trouble stalks a fall festival she's staging in her hometown of Port Frederick, Mass. An
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Virginia Rich, Created by Delacorte Press $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-31224-0
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...
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Nancy Pickard, Author, Virginia Rich, Contribution by Delacorte Press $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-31227-1
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...
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Nevada Barr, Author, J. D. Robb, Author, Nancy Pickard, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-25194-9
An all-star lineup of 13 women mystery authors has produced one madcap, murderous tale in the same serial fashion as Naked Came the Manatee
(1996). To some extent, position determines each contributor's role, but each author has ample...
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