Interview with Kansas City Star

“Elsie is flawed,” said Allen, who today teaches business law at Missouri State University. “Let’s just say that in my youth I resembled Elsie and, now that I am 58 years old, I am able to look back at a young woman’s misdeeds and know that people do grow up.” Click...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch on THE CODE OF THE HILLS

Before Nancy Allen began teaching business law at Missouri State University, she prosecuted criminal cases in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri. She draws on that experience in her first novel, a courtroom thriller titled “The Code of the Hills.” Readers will find...

Why We Need More Bad Girls

Oh, baby—I love an antihero. Whether I’m reading or checking out movies or TV, I don’t want to see Dudley Dooright. I want Jack Reacher, Walter White, Tony Soprano, Cool Hand Luke. Give me a hero with a side dish of human foibles. Click here to read the article...