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Marele Day

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Marele Day


Born
in Sydney, Australia
May 04, 1947


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.

Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based 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; it became a bestseller.

She lives on the New South Wales North coast.

Marele Day's four book Claudia Valentine series has become a minor classic in Australian crime writing, but her Lambs of ...more

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Average rating: 3.45 · 1,556 ratings · 236 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors
Lambs of God
3.66 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions
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The Life And Crimes Of Harr...
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Mrs Cook: The Real and Imag...
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Reckless
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The Case of the Chinese Box...
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The Sea Bed
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The Last Tango of Delores D...
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The Disappearances of Madal...
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How to Write Crime
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