Donna Andrews

Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series.

Early life and education Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia (the setting of her Meg Langslow series) and studied English and drama at the University of Virginia.

Career Her first book, Murder with Peacocks (1999), introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St. Martin's Minotaur Best First Traditional Mystery contest, the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice awards for best first novel, and the Lefty award for funniest mystery of 1999. The first novel in the Turing Hopper series, You've Got Murder (2002), debuted a highly unusual sleuth, an artificial intelligence (AI) personality who becomes sentient. It won the Agatha Award for best mystery that year.

Personal life Donna Andrews lives and works in Reston, Virginia. The Two Deadly Doves: collects two novels, Six Geese A-Slaying and Duck the Halls. Released in 2015 by Macmillan, under its Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books imprint.

Meg Langslow short stories "A Christmas Rescue" in Two Deadly Doves (2015). "Night Shades" in Chesapeake Crimes (2004). "Birthday Dinner" in Death Dines In, Claudia Bishop and Dean James, editors (2004).

The Turing Hopper series You've Got Murder (2002). Click Here for Murder (2003). Access Denied (2004). Delete All Suspects (2005).

Short stories "When Even Waffle House Closes" in Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House, (October 2024) "The Grim" in Black Cat Weekly #165 (October 2024) "Not Another Secret Passage Story" in School of Hard Knox, (August 2023) "Something Dark and Dangerous" in Chesapeake Crimes: Magic Is Murder , (August 2022) "A Night at the Opera" in Monkey Business: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Films of the Marx Brothers, (September 2021) "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" in The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, (April 2020) "The Last Caving Trip" in Storm Warning: Chesapeake Crimes 7, (April 2016) "A Christmas Trifle" in Homicidal Holidays: Chesapeake Crimes 6, (September 2014) "Mean Girls" in This Job Is Murder: Chesapeake Crimes 5, (May 2012) "Normal" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2011 "The Plan" in Chesapeake Crimes 4: They Had It Comin (2010) "Spellbound" in Unusual Suspects, Dana Stabenow, editor (2008) "The Haire of the Beast" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner (2008) "A Rat's Tale" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September–October 2007 "Cold Spell" in Powers of Detection, Dana Stabenow, editor (2004) "An Unkindness of Ravens" in The Mysterious North, Dana Stabenow, editor (2002)

Awards Donna Andrews has won many industry awards for her fiction. 2000 Anthony Award for Best First Novel 2000 Barry Award for Best First Novel 2000 Lefty Award 2000 Finalist for Dilys Award 1999 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best First Mystery

'Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos'' 2009 Lefty Award nomination 2004 Finalist for Dilys Award