Convinced of his father’s innocence, Collin provokes Jody to face the stunnig mystery behind her tragic past. Enthralling, surprising, and beautifully textured, The Scent of Rain and Lightning blurs the boundaries between suspense and literary fiction. “With exquisite sensitivity, Edgar-finalist Pickard (The Virgin of Small Plains) probes a smoldering cold case involving the Linders, a cattle ranching family . · Engrossing, lyrical, and suspenseful, Nancy Pickard's The Scent of Rain and Lightning captures the essence of small-town America—its heartfelt intimacy and its darkest secrets—where through struggle and hardship people still dare to hope for a better future. “Pickard’s tales of Kansas life are filled with gravitas and small-town drama The Scent of Rain and Lightning seems certain to earn her a much-deserved larger audience.”—The Denver Post/5().
Nancy Pickard The Scent of Rain and Lightning. Home; The Scent of Rain and Lightning; The Virgin of Small Plains; Books, Short Stories Essays A Note From Nancy. The Scent of Rain and Lightning is my exploration of those questions--not all of them answered in the ways I expected them to be! "Pickard's tales of Kansas life are filled with gravitas and small-town drama The Scent of Rain and Lightning seems certain to earn her a much-deserved larger audience."—The Denver Post. 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 She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. Her novel The Virgin of Small Plains.
Some writers ease the reader into their story, but Nancy Pickard dives right in with The Scent of Rain and Lightning. By page six, she has set up the framework of her novel and by the end of the first chapter, the reader is hooked on a tale of murder, mystery, family and love. Jody Linder is infamous in the town of Rose, Kansas. Nancy Pickard The Scent of Rain and Lightning. Home; The Scent of Rain and Lightning is my exploration of those questions--not all of them answered in the ways I. Convinced of his father’s innocence, Collin provokes Jody to face the stunnig mystery behind her tragic past. Enthralling, surprising, and beautifully textured, The Scent of Rain and Lightning blurs the boundaries between suspense and literary fiction. “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.”.
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