Donna Andrews, author of Murder with Peacocks
Meredith Cole, author of Posed for Murder
Andy Straka, author of the Frank Pavlicek mysteries, and licensed falconer (yes, he’ll bring his falcon!)
And your host, JRW Board Chair Emyl Jenkins
$10 in advance
$12 at the door
$5 students
Panelists:
Donna Andrews was born in Yorktown, Virginia, the setting of Murder with Peacocks (Minotaur Books, 2000) – winner of the Malice Domestic/St. Martins Press Best First Traditional Mystery contest – and Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos (Minotaur Books, 2002), two works in the Meg Lanslow murder mystery series. Some of her other works include Click Here for Murder (2004), Delete All SuspectsAccess Denied
(2005), all published by Berkley Hardcover. She now lives and works in
Reston, Virginia. When not writing fiction, Andrews is a self-confessed
nerd, rarely found away from her computer, unless she's messing in the
garden. www.donnaandrews.com (2005), and
Meredith Cole
directed feature films and wrote screenplays before writing mysteries.
She won the St. Martin’s/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery
competition, and her first book, Posed for Murder, was published by St. Martin’s Minotaur in February 2009. Her short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the anthology Murder New York Style. Meredith's second book, tentatively called Dead in the Water, will be out in 2010. She currently teaches screenwriting and mystery writing at WriterHouse in Charlottesville. www.culturecurrent.com
Andy Straka
is the author of the Shamus Award-winning and Anthony and Agatha
Award-nominated Frank Pavlicek novels. A licensed falconer and
co-founder of the popular Crime Wave at the annual Virginia Festival of
the Book, Andy is also the author of Record of Wrongs, which Mystery Scene magazine calls "a first-rate thriller." The fourth book in the Pavlicek series, Kitty Hitter, has just been released in hardcover. www.andystraka.com
Emyl Jenkins,
James River Writers' secretary, wrote a baker's dozen non-fiction books
and was a contributing editor to Art & Antiques and Southern
Accents before she turned to fiction. Her first book in the Sterling
Glass Mystery Series, Stealing with Style, was a finalist in
the Library of Virginia's People's Choice, and has been translated into
Lithuanian, Japanese, and Korean. Her second mystery, The Big Steal,
was released this summer to great reviews nationwide. She holds a B.A.
from the University of Mary Washington, and an M.A. in Literature from
the University of Virginia. www.sterlingglassmysteries.com
