Nancy Pickard

Awards

Nancy Pickard
  1. “If you read for pleasure, there’s probably more pleasure per inch in Pickard’s work than almost any other current crime novelist.”
    Cleveland Plain Dealer
  2. “Pickard has evolved into a novelist of substantial literary power.”
    The Denver Post
  1. Agatha Award, Malice Domestic Mystery Convention

    • Finalist, Best Short Story, 2008: for "A Nice Old Guy," Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
    • Winner, Best Novel, 2006: The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
    • Winner, Best Short Story, 1999: "Out of Africa," Mom, Apple Pie & Murder (Berkely Publishing Group)
    • Finalist, Best Novel, 1995: Twilight (Pocket Books)
    • Winner, Best Novel, 1991: I.O.U. (Pocket Books)
    • Winner, Best Novel, 1990: Bum Steer (Pocket Books)
    • Finalist, Best Short Story, 1989: "Afraid All The Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkley Publishing Group)
    • Finalist, Best Novel, 1988: Dead Crazy (Scribner)
  2. Anthony Award, Bouchercon Mystery Convention

    • Finalist, Best Novel, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
    • Winner, Best Paperback Original, 1986: Say No to Murder (Avon Books)
    • Finalist, Best Novel, l987: No Body, (Scribner)
    • Finalist, Best Novel, l988: Marriage Is Murder, (Scribner)
    • Winner, Best Short Story, 1990: "Afraid All the Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkley Publishing Group)
  3. Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America

    • Finalist, Best Novel, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballatine)
    • Finalist, Best Short Story, 1989: "Afraid All the Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkely Publishing Group)
    • Finalist, Best Novel, 1991: I.O.U. (Pocket Books)
    • Finalist, Best Novel, 2000: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)
  4. Shamus Award, Private Eye Writers of America

    • Winner, Best Short Story, 1991 : "Dust Devil," (The Armchair Detective, winter issue)
  5. Macavity Award, Mystery Readers International

    • Winner, Best Novel, 1988: Marriage is Murder (Scribner)
    • Winner, Best Short Story, 1990: "Afraid All the Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkely Publishing Group)
    • Finalist, Best Novel, 2001: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)
    • Winner, Best Short Story, 2006, “There Is No Crime on Easter Island,” EQMM
    • Winner, Best Novel, 2007, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
  6. Mary Higgins Clark Award

    • Finalist, Best Novel, 2000: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)
  7. Thorpe Menn Award, American Association of University Women, Kansas City, Mo.

    • Winner, Best Novel, 2001: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)
  8.  
    • Edgar Wolfe Award, Kansas City, Ks. Public Library, 1997
    • Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Suspense Writing, 2001
    • Barry Award, *Winner, Best Short Story, 2006, “There Is No Crime on Easter Island,” EQMM Sept.-Oct. 2005
    • Kansas Notable Book, 2007, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
    • Read Kansas book of the year, 2009, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
    • Dilys Award, Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, Finalist, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
    • A Killer Book Selection, Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
  9. Short stories included in "year's best" collections:

    • Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, 2009, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
      • Story: “Ms. Grimshanks Regrets
    • The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (Year's Finest Crime & Mystery Stories) 2005-2006, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
      • Story: “The Is No Crime on Easter Island
    • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1993, Edited by Edward D. Hoch
      • Story: "Sex and Violence"
    • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Eleventh Annual Edition, 1998, Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
      • Story: "It Had to Be You"
    • The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, 2002, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
      • Story: "Lucky Devil"
    • The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, 2001, Edited by Ed Gorman
      • Story: "Afraid of the Dark"
    • The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Sixth Annual Edition, 1997, Edited by Joan Hess, Ed Gorman, and Martin H. Greenberg
      • Story: "A Rock and a Hard Place"
    • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Fourth Annual Edition, 1995, Edited by the staff of Mystery Scene Magazine.
      • Story: "Sign of Times"
    • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Seventh Annual Edition, 1998, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
      • Story: "Speak No Evil"
    • The year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, First Annual Edition, 1992, Edited by the Staff of Mystery Scene Magazine
      • Story: "The Dead Past"

 

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