RISKY PURSUIT - 2026 AGATHA NOMINEE

Multi-award-winning mystery writer, James W. Siskin, says Risky Pursuit is one of the great books of fiction he’s read recently (Dec. 11. 2025).

MEET DECKER IN THE THRILLER, RISKY PURSUIT! .

How far would you go to save the people you love?

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Nancy LOVED writing RISKY PURSUIT about courageous Decker Savage.

Nancy G. West was a business major who switched to English lit for grad school and found that writing stories was a lot more fun than accounting.
She writes about ordinary adults and teens faced with danger who must find the courage to save themselves and their loved ones.
She paused writing her Aggie Mundeen Rom-Com Mysteries to write the book she absolutely had to write: RISKY PURSUIT.

BookBub recommends RISKY PURSUIT!

Many thanks to readers for the great reviews and for voting Risky Pursuit #1 in Best YA Book That Anyone Would Enjoy, #1 Best YA Summer Thriller, #1 in Great YA/Indie Books, and #1 Best Children/Teen/Young Adult books.
Goodreads' voting lists are at the bottom of the Risky Pursuit page.

PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
High school senior Decker Savage, burdened by his baby brother’s death and dreading his parents’ impending divorce, sees his mother with a scruffy stranger and follows him to a dark house. He hears shouts upstairs, a man hits the floor, and the culprit escapes.
Decker follows the victim’s ambulance. Through their mutual love of baseball, they become friends; but the elderly man can’t remember who attacked him, and Decker fears the assailant will return.
His grades crater, his relationships go south, his baseball skills are erratic, and by entering the man’s house, he broke the law.
And things are about to get worse.
He suffers anonymous attacks and receives threatening notes: if he doesn’t forget the man and the house, he, his family, and his friend will be the next victims.
Can Decker uncover the culprit’s identity, solve the mystery, and stop the attacks?

Grief, loss, love, courage, forgiveness, reconciliation, redemption - in this thriller for adults and young adults. .

Ebook is on sale until January 5.


OTHER BOOKS BY Nancy G. West

AWARD-WINNING
AGGIE MUNDEEN ROM-COM MYSTERIES

Single, past thirty and fearless, Aggie’s curiosity and amateur sleuthing draw her into investigations that jeopardize her life and frustrate her favorite San Antonio Detective. Every book in the series either won or was nominated for an award.

FIT TO BE DEAD-health club fiasco
DANG NEAR DEAD-dude ranch disaster
SMART, BUT DEAD-academics can be murder
RIVER CITY DEAD-a River Walk romp


NEW SPIN-OFF SERIES

AGGIE MUNDEEN LAKE MYSTERIES

THE PLUNGE #1`
Aggie & Sam plan a quiet weekend at a lakeside cottage and are caught in a 500-year flood that changes them and propels them in new directions.

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Website: www.nancygwest.com
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From Nancy:
I've been writing since age seven: poems back and forth with my mom. At age fifteen, I had a poem published in the Library Journal, Pegasus, At eighteen, I wanted to study journalism and English literature, but friends who chose that college route made minimum wage or sold lingerie. Being practical, I earned a business degree. After marriage and two children, I decided I HAD to study literature and write. I earned an MA, English Literature, and wrote non-fiction articles, a biography, and a suspense novel about a young grad student, Meredith Laughlin, in Nine Days to Evil, Agge Mundeen popped up in Meredith's class, popped into my head, and demanded her own series.

NEW Adult/YA thriller, April 2025: RISKY PURSUIT