Maria Hudgins

Maria Hudgins is the author of six Dotsy Lamb Travel Mysteries: Death of an Obnoxious Tourist, Death of a Lovable Geek, Death on the Aegean Queen, Death of a Second Wife, Death in an ivory Tower and Death in Istanbul. These stories are set in Italy, Scotland, the Greek Islands, Switzerland, England, and Turkey. Before using a place as a setting, Hudgins visits and takes copious notes. These stories follow college history professor, Dorothy (Dotsy) Lamb and her friend Lettie Osgood.

In her Lacy Glass Series, Scorpion House centers around an expedition house in Luxor, Egypt. The Man on the Istanbul Train follows the young botanist from Istanbul to an archaeological dig in central Turkey in her pursuit of the archaeologist, Paul Hannah.

She lives in Hampton, Virginia.