Nancy Pickard

Agatha Award, Malice Domestic Mystery Convention

• Finalist, Best Short Story, 2008: for "A Nice Old Guy," Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
• Winner, Best Novel, 2006: The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
• Winner, Best Short Story, 1999: "Out of Africa," Mom, Apple Pie & Murder (Berkely Publishing Group)
• Finalist, Best Novel, 1995: Twilight (Pocket Books)
• Winner, Best Novel, 1991: I.O.U. (Pocket Books)
• Winner, Best Novel, 1990: Bum Steer (Pocket Books)
• Finalist, Best Short Story, 1989: "Afraid All The Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkley Publishing Group)
• Finalist, Best Novel, 1988: Dead Crazy (Scribner)

Anthony Award, Bouchercon Mystery Convention

• Finalist, Best Novel, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
• Winner, Best Paperback Original, 1986: Say No to Murder (Avon Books)
• Finalist, Best Novel, l987: No Body, (Scribner)
• Finalist, Best Novel, l988: Marriage Is Murder, (Scribner)
• Winner, Best Short Story, 1990: "Afraid All the Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkley Publishing Group)

Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America

• Finalist, Best Novel, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballatine)
• Finalist, Best Short Story, 1989: "Afraid All the Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkely Publishing Group)
• Finalist, Best Novel, 1991: I.O.U. (Pocket Books)
• Finalist, Best Novel, 2000: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)

Shamus Award, Private Eye Writers of America

• Winner, Best Short Story, 1991 : "Dust Devil," (The Armchair Detective, winter issue)

Macavity Award, Mystery Readers International

• Winner, Best Novel, 1988: Marriage is Murder (Scribner)
• Winner, Best Short Story, 1990: "Afraid All the Time," Sisters in Crime (Berkely Publishing Group)
• Finalist, Best Novel, 2001: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)
• Winner, Best Short Story, 2006, “There Is No Crime on Easter Island,” EQMM
• Winner, Best Novel, 2007, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)

Mary Higgins Clark Award

• Finalist, Best Novel, 2000: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)

Thorpe Menn Award, American Association of University Women, Kansas City, Mo.

• Winner, Best Novel, 2001: The Whole Truth (Pocket Books)

• Edgar Wolfe Award, Kansas City, Ks. Public Library, 1997
• Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Suspense Writing, 2001
• Barry Award, *Winner, Best Short Story, 2006, “There Is No Crime on Easter Island,” EQMM Sept.-Oct. 2005
• Kansas Notable Book, 2007, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
• Read Kansas book of the year, 2009, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
• Dilys Award, Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, Finalist, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)
• A Killer Book Selection, Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, 2006, The Virgin of Small Plains (Ballantine Books)

Short stories included in "year's best" collections:

• Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year, 2009, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
  • Story: “Ms. Grimshanks Regrets”
• The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (Year's Finest Crime & Mystery Stories) 2005-2006, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
  • Story: “The Is No Crime on Easter Island”
• The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1993, Edited by Edward D. Hoch
  • Story: "Sex and Violence"
• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Eleventh Annual Edition, 1998, Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Story: "It Had to Be You"
• The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Third Annual Collection, 2002, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
  • Story: "Lucky Devil"
• The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Second Annual Collection, 2001, Edited by Ed Gorman
  • Story: "Afraid of the Dark"
• The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Sixth Annual Edition, 1997, Edited by Joan Hess, Ed Gorman, and Martin H. Greenberg
  • Story: "A Rock and a Hard Place"
• The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Fourth Annual Edition, 1995, Edited by the staff of Mystery Scene Magazine.
  • Story: "Sign of Times"
• The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, Seventh Annual Edition, 1998, Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
  • Story: "Speak No Evil"
• The year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, First Annual Edition, 1992, Edited by the Staff of Mystery Scene Magazine
  • Story: "The Dead Past"