A civic foundation in Massachusetts learns it is to inherit a $4 million cattle ranch. Jenny Cain starts to investigate this unusual bequest, but when she arrives at the benefactor's hospital bed he is dead - murdered. Her enquiries uncover some dark and long-held family secrets.
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 35.
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, published in 2007, won an Agatha Award. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America.