Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard will be here at the Louisburg Library on Tuesday, July 10, at 7:00 pm. She will be talking about Kansas landscape and how it gives rise to novels set in Kansas - like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, In Cold Blood, and the book she is writing now.

Nancy Pickard's latest novel, The Virgin of the Small Plains, has won the Agatha and Reader's Choice Awards, and has also been a finalist for the Edgar Award and several others. In this suspense novel, the mystery of a long ago murder unravels with devasting consequences for a small town in the Flint Hills of Kansas.

Nancy Pickard is the author of sixteen popular and critically acclaimed novels, including the Jenny Cain and Marie Lightfoot mystery series.