Monthly Archives: March 2011

Susan Wittig Albert’s Beatrix Potter Mysteries

Susan Wittig Albert’s Beatrix Potter mysteries Voice and Other Choices in Writing Mystery Fiction Recently, I read THE TALE OF OAK CAKE CRAG, the seventh of The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert. (THE TALE OF CASTLE … Continue reading

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Jonathan Kellerman’s Deception

Jonathan Kellerman’s DECEPTION Introducing Characters Thanks yet again, Nancy Pickard, author of the award-winning THE VIRGIN OF SMALL PLAINS and Agatha Award nominee THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIGHTNING, for your help. Due to your lesson on structure at the … Continue reading

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Nancy Pickard’s The Virgin of Small Plains

Nancy Pickard’s THE VIRGIN OF SMALL PLAINS Expanding the form of the mystery I first met Nancy Pickard at a conference back in the mid-1980’s, when she wrote the first books of the highly enjoyable Jenny Cain mysteries. At another … Continue reading

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