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Donna Foley Mabry (born September 20, 1941) is an American novelist. She has published 19 novels, the best known, 'Maude' (2014), spent multiple weeks on the Wall Street Journal best-sellers lists and is the best-selling Kindle Direct Publishing non-fiction book of all time. 'Maude' has also been released as an audiobook, and has been published in Italian, Russian, German and will be released in2017 in Slovak.

A Michigan native who studied writing in school, Donna first came to Las Vegas to make costumes and soon was weaving the stories she heard in the back of the girls’ dressing room into her first novel. Now she is the author of The Alexandra Merritt Mysteries, which include The Last Two Aces in Las Vegas, The Las Vegas Desert Flower, The Las Vegas Special, Rough Ride in Vegas, M.I.A. Las Vegas, and The Las Vegas Sophisticate.

She has written several other stand-alone thrillers, Desperate Ambition, about a political assassination, The Right Society, about a devout Christian family that moves into a religious community and finds it’s easier to get in than it is to get out, The Other Hand, about a famous athlete who leaves his family for a young, virginal girl. Shortly after they divorce, she winds up slaughtered. He is the primary suspect, but not the only one. Her most recent work, released in September, is The Russell House, a ghostly mystery set in Manhattan, Kansas.

Donna has a popular series of historical romances, The Manhattan Stories, Jessica, Pillsbury Crossing, The Cabin, Kimimela and D’Arcy Curran. A sixth and seventh is in progress.

A light-hearted work, Conversations With Skip, is the story of a shelter dog adopted by a young woman having trouble sleeping after her divorce. With his unusual ability to communicate, he is soon running her life, arranging her romances, and teaching her to laugh again.

She has also written three screenplays, a stage play, poetry, short stories, and a children’s story.