Nancy Means Wright

If you read the review of Mad Cow Nightmare, you could get the feeling the Ruth Willmarth mysteries aren't really cozies. But Nancy assures me that Mad Cow is the most "hard-edged" of these mysteries and that the rest fall into the true cozy category. I'm looking forward to reading the others because Ruth Willmarth is a wonderful, rich character I would like to know better.

Books:

Ruth Willmarth Mysteries

• (2005) Mad Cow Nightmare See Review
• (2002) Stolen Honey
• (2002) Fire and Ice  (Novella)
• (2000) Poison Apples
• (1998) Harvest of Bones
• (1996) Mad Season 

Other Fiction

• (2006) The Pea Soup Poisonings (Juvenile)
• (1982) Down the Strings (Young Adult)
• (1972) The Losing 
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Non-Fiction

• (1987) Vermonters at Their Craft: Vermont Craftspeople Talk about Their Life and Work. (with daughter, Catharine Wright)
• (1985) Make Your Own Change (family memoir)

Poetry

• (2000) Walking up into the Volcano
• (1992) Split Nipple

Brief Bio:

Nancy Means Wright is the author of thirteen books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including five adult mystery novels (St. Martin’s Press), featuring earthy, hot-tempered Vermont dairy farmer, Ruth Willmarth.  Nancy’s mother threw out her first mystery novel, written at the age of ten about the kidnapping of an obnoxious older brother, but the author redeems herself with The Pea Soup Poisonings, inspired by early adventures of her four children. It’s out in April 2006 from Hilliard & Harris.  Nancy’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Redbook, Seventeen, Yankee, Country Journal, American Craft, Vermont Life, American Literary Review, Wisconsin Review, and Carolina Quarterly. She has also appeared at Amazon Shorts.  A former Bread Loaf Scholar, current Scholar for the Vermont Humanities Council, and faculty member for the Champlain College Young Vermont conference, she lives, writes, and rewrites on a dirt road in Cornwal, Vermont. Bio adapted from author web-site and used with permission. Photo from author, used with permission.

Author website: www.nancymeanswright.com