Her novel The Virgin of Small Plains, published in , won an Agatha Award. She also served on t Nancy Pickard is an American crime novelist. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and began writing at age /5. Nancy Pickard is a four-time Edgar Award nominee, most recently for 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 www.doorway.ru: Nancy Pickard. For seventeen years, a rural community in Kansas has faithfully tended the grave of an anonymous teenage girl christened the Virgin of Small Plains. And some claim that, perhaps owing to the girl’s intervention, strange miracles and unexplainable healings have occurred. Slowly, word of /5().
The Virgin of Small Plains, my first standalone novel and my first one set entirely in Kansas, has all those elements. I hope that when a reader closes the last page of it she will feel the kind of satisfaction I experience when I finish a book that has characters I love and don't want to leave. "Nancy Pickard flexes her stellar storytelling talents in this unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal and redemption. The Virgin of Small Plains is a powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel, a tour de force!" Judith Kelman, Best-selling author and Mary Higgins Clark Award winner. "An absorbing tale of love and deceit. About Nancy Pickard. Nancy Pickard is a four-time Edgar Award nominee, most recently for 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 More about Nancy Pickard.
The mysterious dead girl—the “Virgin of Small Plains”—inspires local reverence. In the two decades following her death, strange miracles visit those who faithfully tend to her grave; some even believe that her spirit can cure deadly illnesses. Slowly, word of the legend spreads. by Nancy Pickard ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, Accomplished mystery writer Pickard (The Truth Hurts, , etc.) skillfully exposes insidious elements in a small town. Two smitten teenagers in Small Plains, Kan., contemplate making love for the first time. Sent downstairs by girlfriend Abby Reynolds to fetch condoms from her doctor father’s supply cabinet, Mitch Newquist instead secretly witnesses the brutal disfigurement of a dead girl’s corpse by the respectable Dr. Reynolds. Her novel The Virgin of Small Plains, published in , won an Agatha Award. She also served on t Nancy Pickard is an American crime novelist. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and began writing at age
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