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Cathy Pickens

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Finally! Somebody talented gets a break -- Pickens (nom de plume for Queens University prof Cathy Anderson) won the St. Martin's / Malice Domestic Award for Best New Traditional Mystery, resulting in the publication of her first novel, Southern Fried, earlier this year. Cathy's a fine storyteller and this is a solid mystery, with plenty of upstate SC characters and a plot right out of today's headlines. -- Ann Wicker