Donna Andrews (author)


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 and studied English and drama at the University of Virginia.

Career

Her first book, Murder with Peacocks, 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, debuted a highly unusual sleuth, an artificial intelligence 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 Meg Langslow series

  1. Murder with Peacocks.
  2. Murder with Puffins.
  3. Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos.
  4. Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon.
  5. We'll Always Have Parrots.
  6. Owls Well That Ends Well.
  7. No Nest for the Wicket.
  8. The Penguin Who Knew Too Much.
  9. Cockatiels at Seven.
  10. Six Geese A-Slaying.
  11. Swan For The Money.
  12. Stork Raving Mad .
  13. The Real Macaw.
  14. Some Like It Hawk.
  15. The Hen of the Baskervilles.
  16. Duck the Halls.
  17. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus.
  18. The Nightingale Before Christmas.
  19. Lord of the Wings.
  20. Die Like an Eagle
  21. Gone Gull
  22. How the Finch Stole Christmas!
  23. Toucan Keep a Secret
  24. Lark! The Herald Angels Sing
  25. Terns of Endearment
  26. Owl Be Home For Christmas
  27. The Falcon Always Wings Twice
  28. Gift of the Magpie
  29. Murder Most Fowl
  30. The Twelve Jays of Christmas
  31. Round Up the Usual Peacocks
  32. Dashing Through the Snowbirds
  33. Birder, She Wrote
  34. Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!
  35. Between a Flock and a Hard Place
  36. Rockin' Around the Chickadee
  37. For Duck's Sake A Murder Hatched: collects the first two Meg Langslow novels. Released in 2009 by Macmillan, under its Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books imprint.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.
  • "Night Shades" in Chesapeake Crimes.
  • "Birthday Dinner" in Death Dines In, Claudia Bishop and Dean James, editors.

The Turing Hopper series

You've Got Murder. Click Here for Murder. Access Denied. Delete All Suspects.

Short stories

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

Awards

Donna Andrews has won many industry awards for her fiction. As of 2024 she has earned 3 Agatha Awards, 1 Anthony Award, 1 Barry Award, 4 Lefty Awards, 2 Toby Bromberg Awards and 1 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award. Andrews has also been nominated for 3 Dilys Awards.
'Murder with Peacocks'
'Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos'
  • 2009 Lefty Award nomination
'You've Got Murder'
'Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon'
  • 2003 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
  • 2003 Toby Bromberg Award for Most Humorous Mystery
  • 2004 Finalist for Dilys Award
  • 2004 Lefty Award nomination
'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
'No Nest for the Wicket'
  • 2007 Lefty Award nomination
'The Penguin Who Knew Too Much'
  • 2007 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
  • 2008 Lefty Award nomination
"A Rat's Tale", Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine – Sept/Oct. 2007
'Six Geese A-Slaying'
  • 2008 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
  • 2009 Lefty Award nomination
'Swan For the Money'
  • 2009 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
  • 2009 Toby Bromberg Award for Most Humorous Mystery
  • 2010 Lefty Award nomination
'Stork Raving Mad'
  • 2010 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
  • 2011 Lefty Award nomination
'The Real Macaw'
  • 2011 Agatha Award nomination for Best Novel
  • 2012 Lefty Award
'The Good, the Bad, and the Emus'
  • 2014 Agatha Award nomination for Best Contemporary Novel
' Lord of the Wings '
'Die Like an Eagle'
  • 2017 Lefty Award nomination for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
'Gone Gull'
  • 2018 Lefty Award nomination for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
'The Gift of the Magpie'
  • 2020 Agatha Award nomination for Best Contemporary Novel
'School of Hard Knox'

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