Mystery

	Donna Andrews graduated from UVa and now lives in Arlington, Virginia. Her award-winning first book, Murder with Peacocks, was followed by Murder with Puffins, Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, and the upcoming, You've Got Murder. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m.
	Frankie Y. Bailey is a criminal justice professor. Her non-fiction books include Out of the Woodpile: Black Character in Crime and Detective Fiction. Her mystery series features crime historian Lizzie Stuart in Death's Favorite Child and A Dead Man's Honor. 3/23 Crime Wave. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m.
	Jan Burke is the author of eight novels, including Flight and the Edgar Award-winning Bones .Her latest thriller, Nine, will be published in October, 2003. She is also an award-winning short story writer. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
	Jeffery Deaver, author of fifteen suspense novels including the Universal Pictures release The Bone Collector, is a four time Edgar Award nominee, an Anthony nominee and has twice received the Ellery Queen Readers' Award for best short story of the year. He lives in California and Virginia. 3/23 4 p.m., 5 p.m.
	Wendy Devere-Austin has had a distinguished career in the film industry in publicity and production. Residing in Charlottesville, she is the author of the psychological thriller Still Waters Run Deep and is working on her second thriller, Dead on Cue. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
	Raymond Devere-Austin has worked in film and television in many capacities, the last forty years as a director & and script writer. He is the author of The Eagle Heist, featuring a P.I. who by strange coincidence favors Wilford Brimley. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
	Elizabeth Foxwell is a founding director of Malice Domestic Ltd. and a contributing editor to the magazine Mystery Scene. She has published five historical mystery short stories and edited or co-edited nine mystery anthologies, including Malice Domestic 9, an Anthony Award nominee. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m.
Douglas Greene is professor of history at Old Dominion University and is the author of books and articles on mystery writers like John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles and editor of various mystery story anthologies. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m.
	Peter Heck is the author of the Mark Twain mysteries, including Mysterious Strangler, Death on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court and The Prince and the Prosecutor. He is also a reviewer for Asimov's Science Fiction. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
Michael Killian, author of the Harrison Raines/Civil War and Bedford Green/Jazz Age Mysteries, has published 20 books, including Library of Virginia Prize nominee Major Washington. He is a columnist for The Chicago Tribune and writer of the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
Kathleen Gregory Klein is the author of Edgar and Agatha nominee The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre (also published in Japanese). She is the editor of Great Women Mystery Writers, Women Times Three, and Diversity and Detective Fiction. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m.
	Laura Lippman has won all the major mystery writing awards given in the United States–the Edgar, the Agatha, the Anthony, the Shamus and the Nero Wolfe. Her latest Tess Monaghan mystery In a Strange City was picked by The New York Times and The Washington Post as the best of 2001. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
	Miriam Grace Monfredo, author of nine Seneca Falls Historical Mysteries, has had her second book, North Star Conspiracy, selected for the statewide 2002 "Alaska Reads A Book" program. Her most recent Brothers of Cain is the second of a Civil War Trilogy. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
	Tim Myers's mystery series features a lighthouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Innkeeping with Murder (Berkley Prime Crime) is an Agatha Award Nominee and was an IMBA National Bestseller last summer. Reservations for Murder is next in the series (June, 2002). 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m.
	Tom Nolan's book Ross Macdonald: A Biography was nominated for the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award and won the Macavity Award. Nolan found and edited Strangers in Town, three unpublished Macdonald stories. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. 2 p.m. 5 p.m.
	George P. Pelecanos, author of ten crime/noir novels including Right as Rain and Hell to Pay, has had fiction appear in Esquire and Best American Mystery Stories of 1997. The Big Blowdown received the International Crime Novel of the Year Award in France, Germany and Japan. 3/23 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
	Anne Perry is the author of more than thirty historical mystery novels. She was awarded the Herodotus Lifetime Achievement award for Excellence in Historical Mysteries. Her latest book is Southampton Row. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m.
	Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. She was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards and Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards. She is the author of the Amelia Peabody mystery series. 3/23 12 noon luncheon (tickets necessary), 2 p.m. booksigning (open to public)
	Paul Sledzik is a forensic anthropologist at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC. As commander of the mid-Atlantic Disaster Mortuary Team, he assisted in identifying disaster victims. His scientific research examines skeletal health and human identification. 3/23 2 p.m.
	Daniel Stashower is an Edgar and Agatha winner for Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, and a past recipient of the Raymond Changler Fulbright Fellowship in Crime Fiction Writing. His most recent novel is The Houdini Spector. 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. 2 p.m. 5 p.m.
	Andy Straka is the author of A Witness Above, Agatha nominated for best first mystery novel of 2001. Charlottesville private investigator and falconer Frank Pavlicek returns in A Killing Sky (on sale at Crime Wave at VABook March 23 and available in stores April 2). 3/20, 4 p.m.; 3/20 7 p.m.; 3/23, 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m.
	Marcia Talley writes the award-winning Hannah Ives mysteries --Sing It to Her Bones, Unbreathed Memories and Occasion of Revenge. She is editor/contributor to Naked Came the Phoenix, a star-studded, tongue-in-cheek serial novel. Marcia's short stories appear in numerous collections.
	Kathy Hogan Trocheck is the author of ten novels, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series. A recovering journalist, she returned to the start of her newspaper career, Savannah, Georgia, to write her latest novel, Savannah Blues, which she has penned under the pseudonym of Mary Kay Andrews.