Marele Day
Marele Day (born 4 May 1947) is an Australian author of mystery novels. She won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novel[1] and a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction work How to Write Crime.[2]
Biography
Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb. She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers' College and in 1973 obtained a degree from Sydney University. She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during the 1980s.[1]
Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based[3] private investigator but her breakthrough novel was Lambs of God which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers;[1] it became a bestseller.[2]
She lives on the New South Wales North coast.[3]
Bibliography
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Claudia Valentine series
- The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender (1988) - Shamus Award winner
- The Case of the Chinese Boxes (1990)
- The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado (1993)
- The Disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi (1995)
Other novels
- Shirley's Song (1984)
- Lambs of God (1997)
- Mavis Levack, P.I. (2000)
- Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife (2003)
- The Sea Bed (2009)
Non-fiction
- Successful Promotion by Writers (1993)
- How to Write Crime (1996) - Ned Kelly Award winner
References
- 1 2 3 page 62-64, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33428-5
- 1 2 UQP - Marele Day
- 1 2 Australian Crime Fiction Database - Marele Day