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] Lambs of God was adapted into a TV series of the same name in 2019, starring Ann Dowd and Essie Davis.[4]

She lives on the New South Wales North Coast,[3] where she is on the board of Byron Writers Festival[5] and was the mentor of their residential mentorship program from 2002-2022.[6]

Bibliography

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
  • Reckless (2023)

References

  1. 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
  2. 1 2 UQP - Marele Day
  3. 1 2 Australian Crime Fiction Database - Marele Day
  4. ↑ Ramos, Dino-Ray (13 May 2018). "Ann Dowd And Essie Davis Set for Gothic Drama Series 'Lambs Of God'". Deadline. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Marele Day | Byron Writers Festival". 2 May 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "northerly Autumn 2022 by Byron Writers Festival - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
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