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Nancy Fairbanks
Nancy Fairbanks Herndon was born and brought up in the St.
Louis area, took bachelors degrees in English and
Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, where
she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, an event almost as
exciting and astonishing as the news, delivered by phone
early one morning when she had been fast asleep, that her
first book had been accepted for publication. She followed
those two degrees with a Masters from Rice University, plus
some doctoral work in English at New York University.
She held low-paying and not terribly interesting jobs as a
typist, sales clerk, proofreader, and advertising
copywriter, and then almost as low-paying but much more
interesting jobs as a lecturer in English at Rice, NYU,
University of Mississippi, Florida Atlantic University and
University of Texas at El Paso. In 1989 her first
historical romance, Wanton Angel, was published by
Dorchester Publishing Co. in NYC under the pseudonym
Elizabeth Chadwick. Six more historical romances and seven
short stories in various anthologies followed before she
published her first mystery, Acid Bath, with Berkley Prime
Crime under her married name, Nancy Herndon.
After six additional comic police procedurals in the Elena
Jarvis series, she began the Carolyn Blue culinary mystery
series, written under her maiden name, Nancy Fairbanks.
Crime Brulee, Truffled Feathers, Death a l’Orange,
Chocolate Quake, and The Perils of Paella are in print with
Unholy Guacamole to follow in November, 2004. Nancy has a
new contract for three more Carolyn Blue novels with
Berkley and is at work on a mystery that takes place in
Sorrento, Italy. Each of these mysteries is situated in a
different city (in some of which English is a second
language, if spoken at all, including her hometown, El
Paso, Texas, site of Unholy Guacamole). The series includes
cultural history and recipes from the relevant areas, not
to mention bizarre characters and adventures. Who, after
all, expects to find a real corpse as part of an art
exhibit?
Nancy lives in El Paso, Texas. Forty-something homemaker Carolyn
Blue is through with
cooking and cleaning. She’s finally decided to throw in the
dishtowel—and take on a dream job as a food writer. Now her
plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and
even a dash of crime. An index of to-die-for recipes
included.
Books:
 Turkey Flambé, November 2007
Bon Bon Voyage, August 2007
French Fried, December 2006
Bon Bon Voyage, April 2006
Three-Course Murder, January 2006
Mozzarella Most Murderous, July 2005
Holy Guacamole!, November 2004
The Perils of Paella, January 2004
Chocolate Quake, April 2003
Death À L’Orange, June 2002
Truffled Feathers, December 2001
Crime Brûlée, April 2001
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