Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia, setting of
her Meg Langslow mystery series.
Owl's Well That Ends Well, the sixth book in the series, was an April 2005 release from St. Martin's Press--following Murder with Peacocks, Murder with Puffins, Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, and We'll Always Have Parrots.
Andrews also has a second series with Berkley Prime Crime, featuring artificial intelligence personality (AIP) Turing Hopper, and set in Northern Virginia, where she now lives. Access Denied, third in the series, will be released in December 2004. It follows You've Got Murder and Click Here for Murder.
Andrews is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, D.C. Webwomen, and the Private Investigators and Security Association.
Owl's Well That Ends Well
Meg's large and eccentric family show up to add more clutter
to the sale, while her dad, the newly elected president of
SPOOR (Stop Poisoning Our Owls and Raptors) uses the occasion to
promote his new cause.
Meg is coping (barely) until the body of a local antique dealer
is discovered in an old trunk and the police shut down the yard sale. And when the cops
arrest a suspect--a professor who has a key vote on Michael's tenure
committee. Meg decides that the only way to prove his innocence,
and avoid being stuck with several tons of unsold junk,
is to find the killer herself, and quickly.
In Owl's Well That Ends Well, Meg and Michael have bought a very elderly house
from the estate of the uncrowned Queen of the Packrats and are
stuck with the job of cleaning it out. Solution: a yard sale.
Access Denied
When Turing Hopper, Artificial Intelligence Personality extraordinaire,
learns that criminal Nestor Garcia's once-dormant credit card has been
doing a lot of shopping lately, she begins to do some sleuthing--and
finds out the loot's shown up at an empty bungalow. So Turing gets
her human friends to stake out the vicinity. But when one of them sees
something he wishes he hadn't--and gets charged with murder--everyone
will have to pull together to clear his name. The only way to do it
is to find the guilty party--by luring him to attack them. But doing
so might very well get them "accidentally" deleted...
For more information, see donnaandrews.com.