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Nancy Means Wright

Goodreads Author

Born

Glen Ridge, New Jersey, The United States

Website

http://www.nancymeanswright.com

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

Influences

Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Oedipus the King, Mary Wollstonecra ...more

Member Since

February 2010

URL

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I'm the author of 18 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, including 5 mystery novels from St. Martin's Press, 2 historical novels: Midnight Fires: a Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft ('10)and the Nightmare ('11)from Perseverance Press.For those who don't know her, Wollstonecraft is the brilliant but rebellious and conflicted 18th century author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,and mother of Mary Shelley (think Frankenstein).
I've also published 2 mysteries for kids. The Pea Soup Poisonings, based on my own 4 kids'childhood shenanigans, won the '06 Agatha Award for Best Children's/YA Novel,and The Great Circus Train Robbery was a finalist. My latest mystery is Broken Strings, a spin-off from my St. Martin's Press novels with a puppe ...more

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Nancy discovers Good Reads blog

I'm such a Neanderthal.I just discovered a spot to blog on Good Reads.I already do a monthly blog for Perseverance Press (getitwrite blog.wordpress.com). And on occasion at the VermontBookShelf.blogspot.com. Anyway, here I am. I've a new mystery just out: Broken Strings,with a puppeteer sleuth--a dark cozy, I call it. When Vermont puppeteer Fay finds a friend dead of poisoned yew and a half-sister Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 17, 2013 08:08 • Tags: new-blog, puppeteer-sleuth, puppets, vermont

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Nancy Means Wright’s books

Average rating: 3.29 · 425 ratings · 96 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	Broken Strings 3.24 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Fires (Mary Wollstonecraft, #1) 3.22 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harvest of Bones (Ruth Willmarth, #2) 3.11 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poison Apples (Ruth Willmarth, #3) 3.15 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stolen Honey (Ruth Willmarth, #4) 2.94 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nightmare (Mary Wollstonecraft, #2) 3.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mad Season (Ruth Willmarth, #1) 2.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mad Cow Nightmare (Ruth Willmarth, #5) 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking Into the Wild 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queens Never Make Bargains really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.”
― Nancy Means Wright

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