...and Nancy Means Wright too!

Awesome aptly conveys my excitement about this year's winners at Malice Domestic. Elaine covered all but one author for whom I'm thrilled...Nancy Means Wright, who won the Agatha for best YA novel for Pea Soup Poisonings (Hilliard & Harris). Nancy, grande dame of 'rural noir' (a sub-genre I've adopted), was my very supportive mentor at last November's Crimebake. She's a great and gracious lady - an active and avid SinC member/supporter from Vermont - who authors the Ruth Wilmarthe series (Mad Season, Harvest of Bones, Poison Apples, Stolen Honey, Fire and Ice, and Mad Cow Nightmare) about a single mother-dairy farmer sleuth.

–Lois