Donna Andrews (author)
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Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. 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—and won the Agatha Award
for best mystery that year.
Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia (the setting of her Meg Langslow series), and now lives and works in Reston, Virginia
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A Murder Hatched: Collects the first two Meg Langslow novels. Released in 2009 by Macmillian, under its Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books imprint.
s, 1 Anthony Award
, 1 Barry Award
, 2 Lefty Awards, 2 Toby Bromberg Awards and 1 Romantic Times
Reviewers' Choice Award. Andrews has also been nominated for 3 Dilys Award
s.
'Murder with Peacocks'
'You've Got Murder'
'Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon'
'We'll Always Have Parrots'
'Owl's Well That Ends Well'
'The Penguin Who Knew Too Much'
"A Rat's Tale", Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Sept/Oct. 2007
'Six Geese A-Slaying'
'Swan For the Money'
Agatha Award
The Agatha Awards are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write via the same method as Agatha Christie...
for best mystery that year.
Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia (the setting of her Meg Langslow series), and now lives and works in Reston, Virginia
Reston, Virginia
Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The population was 58,404, at the 2010 Census and 56,407 at the 2000 census...
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The Meg Langslow series
- Murder with Peacocks (1999)
- Murder with Puffins (2000)
- Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos (2001)
- Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (2003)
- We'll Always Have Parrots (2004)
- Owls Well That Ends Well (2005)
- No Nest for the Wicket (2006)
- The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (2007)
- Cockatiels at Seven (2008)
- Six Geese A-Slaying (2009)
- Swan For The Money (2009)
- Stork Raving Mad (in hardcover, July 2010)
- The Real Macaw (in hardcover, July 2011)
A Murder Hatched: Collects the first two Meg Langslow novels. Released in 2009 by Macmillian, under its Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books imprint.
Meg Langslow short stories
- "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
- "The Haire of the Beast" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, edited by Charlaine HarrisCharlaine HarrisCharlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children...
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)
- "Spellbound" in Unusual Suspects, Dana Stabenow, editor (2008)
- "The Plan" in Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin (2010)
Awards
Donna Andrews has won many industry awards for her fiction. As of 2009 she has earned 3 Agatha AwardAgatha Award
The Agatha Awards are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write via the same method as Agatha Christie...
s, 1 Anthony Award
Anthony Award
The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher , one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America....
, 1 Barry Award
Barry Award
The Barry Award is an annual prize presented to the most outstanding comedy act at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. It has been awarded since 1998, when it was introduced as the Stella Award, and was renamed in 2000 in honour of Barry Humphries, one of the festival's founding patrons...
, 2 Lefty Awards, 2 Toby Bromberg Awards and 1 Romantic Times
Reviewers' Choice Award. Andrews has also been nominated for 3 Dilys Award
Dilys Award
The Dilys Award have been presented every year since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It is given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association is an association of retail businesses...
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'Murder with Peacocks'
- 1999 Agatha Award for Best First Novel
- 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
'You've Got Murder'
- 2002 Agatha Award for Best Novel
- 2003 Finalist for Dilys Award
'Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon'
- 2003 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
- 2003 Toby Bromberg Award for Most Humorous Mystery
- 2004 Finalist for Dilys Award
'We'll Always Have Parrots'
- 2004 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
- 2005 Lefty Award
'Owl's Well That Ends Well'
- 2005 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
'The Penguin Who Knew Too Much'
- 2007 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
"A Rat's Tale", Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Sept/Oct. 2007
- 2007 Agatha Award for Best Short Story
'Six Geese A-Slaying'
- 2008 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
'Swan For the Money'
- 2009 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
- 2010 Lefty Award nomination
Professional Memberships
- Sisters in Crime (Chesapeake Chapter)
- Mystery Writers of America (Mid-Atlantic chapter)
- Private Investigators and Security Association