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Authors: Nancy Pickard
About the Author
N
ANCY
P
ICKARD
is a four-time Edgar Award nominee, most recently for her Ballantine debut,
The Virgin of Small Plains.
Hailed by mainstream critics, the novel was also honored by the State Library of Kansas to be the “Kansas Reads” book for 2009. Pickard is the winner of the Anthony Award, Macavity Award, Agatha Award, Barry Award, and Shamus Award. Pickard has been a national board member of the Mystery Writers of America and president of Sisters in Crime. She lives in Merriam, Kansas.
The Scent of Rain and Lightning
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Nancy Pickard
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
B
ALLANTINE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Pickard, Nancy.
The scent of rain and lightning : a novel / Nancy Pickard.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51663-3
1. Murder victims’ families—Fiction. 2. Family secrets—Fiction. 3. Ex-convicts—Fiction. 4. City and town life—Kansas—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3566.I274S34 2010
813′.54—dc22 2010002092
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