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Nancy Stancill

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Born
in Johnson City TN, The United States
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A variety of mysteries.

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September 2013


Grew up in Radford Virginia. Graduated from University of North Carolina School of Journalism.
MFA from University of Tampa.

Worked as journalist for 38 years in Virginia, California, Texas and North Carolina.

My favorite newspaper job was investigative reporting for the Houston Chronicle and Charlotte Observer. Some of those experiences gave me ideas for my first book, Saving Texas. I wrote it living in London from 2009-2012. I wasn't working, so I had the time to write. I discoveered I loved crafting suspense novels and have written three, plus a memoir.

Deadly Secrets, which comes out in December 2024, is my first book set in North Carolina. Since much of it involves the mountain area, I'm donating half its proceeds to a hurricane Helene
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More eyes are the prize

Oct. 8, 2025

My publisher kindly entered “Deadly Secrets,” my third Annie Price mystery, in a Goodreads giveaway.

The September results are in: 1,135 entrants for 100 Kindle downloads and 1,081 Goodreads readers shelved it as a “want to read.”

This is by no means a Goodreads record, but I’m really happy to have that many sets of eyes on it.

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Saving Texas

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