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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Full Series List in Order

A Eugenia Potter Mystery

4 - The 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders (Dec-1992)
5 - The Blue Corn Murders (Aug-1998)
6 - The Secret Ingredient Murders (Jan-2001)

A Jenny Cain Mystery

1 - Generous Death (1984)
2 - Say No to Murder (1985)
3 - No Body (Oct-1986)
4 - Marriage Is Murder (Sep-1987)
5 - Dead Crazy (Jun-1989)
6 - Bum Steer (1989)
7 - I.O.U. (Mar-1992)
8 - But I Wouldn't Want to Die There (Dec-1993)
9 - Confession (Aug-1994)
10 - Twilight (Nov-1995)

Marie Lightfoot

1 - The Whole Truth (Mar-2000)
2 - Ring of Truth (Jun-2001)
3 - Truth Hurts (Jul-2002)

Book List in Order: 32 titles



    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Jennifer Cain, beauty and brain, Her father is Greed, her mother's Insane; Jennifer Cain, giver of pain, Gave her life, but not in vain... As director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain is privy to the charitable intentions of ...



    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Jenny Cain was thrilled about the Liberty Harbor Restoration, a picturesque collection of shops, museums and restaurants. But when a runaway truck barreled into the project committee, it seemed someone in Port Frederick was out to sink Liberty Harbor...



  • Bright and beautiful Jenny Cain, director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, was dying of curiosity. A hapless visitor had slipped in the mud at the town's historic cemetery--and fallen right into an empty grave! When Jenny discovered that al...



  • Jenny Cain and police detective Geof Bushfield already had pre-nuptial jitters. Then a sudden wave of domestic violence rocked placid Port Frederick - in just two weeks, the husbands of three battered wives were shot dead. Homicide was all too famili...



    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    Hours after the Port Frederick, Massachusetts, Civic Foundation got wind of an imminent, highly unusual bequest-a $4 million Kansas cattle ranch-director Jenny Cain hopped a flight heading west. She arrived at the hospital room of the Foundation's my...



  • Award-winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher -- only to uncover clues that put her ...




    • / General Fiction
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    From the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers comes CAT CRIMES 2, a chilling collection of original stories that will leave cat- and mystery-lovers purring for more. Inside you'll encounter the Bogart drawl of P...



  • Winner of the Agatha Award and finalist for the Edgar Award.Jenny explores her own family’s unsettling, mysterious past, beginning with her mother’s death in the seventh book in the award-winning Jenny Cain mystery series that was called “excel...






  • A woman haunted by an unnamed terror sees nothing but danger lurking on the flat, prairie land she's inherited....



  • SOME LIKE IT HOT... When Eugenia Potter receives an urgent phone call from the manager of her ranch near Tucson, she's only too happy to drop everything and fly home. Something inside of her is calling her back to the desert. Why else would she be...



  • Ordinarily, Massachusetts native Jenny Cain would be thrilled to spend time in New York City. But her good friend Carol Margolis has just been brutally murdered--a mugging gone wrong, say the police--and Jenny's been tapped to step into Carol's shoes...



  • Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard dishes up a perfectly delicious new feast of original mystery stories, served up in classic Agatha Christie style. Celebrating the enduring legacy of the most beloved crime writer of all time, MALIC...



  • Jenny Cain would never forget the hot Massachusetts summer day fate knocked at her door. Fate was a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes, a motorcycle, and a shocking byt credible story: Jenny's husband, Geof, was his biological father. The boy, David M...



  • When a bad man with a nice cat was murdered during World War II, the police asked Dr. Franklin Couch for his assistance. Now, many years later, the old veterinarian tells his granddaughter about the investigation, which involved many cats and many cl...



  • The ever-agile Jenny is currently juggling the first ever Port Frederick Fall Festival and the request of her friend Nellie Kennedy, who wants help in getting rid of "God's Highway", a controversial hiking/bike path. Lately, a series of fatal acciden...



  • Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...



  • Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously fe...



  • The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...






  • KERNELS OF TRUTH When Eugenia Potter stumbles upon some ancient pottery shards on her ranch, she feels a profound connection with the past. And a deep desire to learn more about the relics. Now, with sweet dream cookies in her purse to nourish the...



  • Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...



  • Fans of mystery, crime, fantasy, and horror will love this collection of stories by internationally acclaimed mystery writer Nancy Pickard. From a never-before-published story sure to thrill readers to eight other award-winning cautionary tales, thes...



  • Who says you can't balance motherhood with murder? These acclaimed mystery writers prove that you can--on paper, at least. They've created a surprising collection of mysteries with a maternal twist ... perfect for any mystery-loving mother. In fac...




  • Ted Bundy. Hannibal Lecter. Florida killer Raymond Raintree has been compared to the most notorious of monsters, be they real or imagined. But the crime Raintree stands trial for--the brutal murder of Natalie Mae McCullen--is all too real. For gutsy ...



  • A DINNER TO DIE FOR Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome her. And soon G...



  • SEX, VIOLENCE, EVIL, AND BETRAYAL The shocking murder case splashed across the Florida headlines has all the right elements for true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot's next bestseller. A charming minister's love affair with a beautiful, wealthy new ch...



  • MURDER BY THE BOOK It's the most bizarre and frightening proposal true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot has ever received: a killer wants Marie to collaborate with him by becoming his next victim--and writing a book about her own murder. But for Marie...



  • Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage g...






  • The editors of Many Bloody Returns deliver the perfect howl-iday gift, with new tales from Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and many more. New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur, and Carrie Vaughn--along w...



  • One beautiful summer afternoon, from her bedroom window on the second floor, Jody Linder is unnerved to see her three uncles parking their pickups in front of her parents' house--or what she calls her parents' house, even though Jay and Laurie Jo Lin...



  • A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...


Award-Winning Books by Nancy Pickard

Bum Steer
1990 Agatha Award -- Novel
I.O.U.
1991 Agatha Award -- Novel
1992 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
Marriage Is Murder
1988 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
Say No to Murder
1986 Anthony Award -- Paperback Original
The Virgin of Small Plains
2006 Agatha Award -- Novel
2007 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nancy Pickard has published 32 books.

Nancy Pickard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Joy Ride, was published in September 2017.

The first book by Nancy Pickard, Generous Death, was published in January 1984.

Yes. Nancy Pickard has 3 series.