What do you think?
Rate this book
Claudia Valentine #3
The Last Tango of Delores Delgado
Claudia Valentine has been hired to look after Dolores Delgado. Hanging out with this exotic and beautiful creature is more like fun than work - until the day Dolores drops dead.
218 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
31 people want to read
About the author
Marele Day
19 books29 followersDay 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 God (1998) was even more highly acclaimed as an original and provocative literary work, published in the US by Riverhead and in the UK by Sceptre. Her most recent novel was Mrs Cook, a rich portrayal of the life of a woman whose passion and intellect matched that of her celebrated husband.
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 God (1998) was even more highly acclaimed as an original and provocative literary work, published in the US by Riverhead and in the UK by Sceptre. Her most recent novel was Mrs Cook, a rich portrayal of the life of a woman whose passion and intellect matched that of her celebrated husband.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
January 19, 2019
Fabulous title. Great story. Loved the tour through yesteryear's Sydney suburbs.
Recommended by a friend.
Recommended by a friend.
August 4, 2024
Cracking pace read. Fierce and flawed heroine.
February 25, 2016
It was pretty good. Some great lines, some print errors and unnecessary waffle, but generally kept me interested to the end. It might have made four stars had I realised it was number 3 in a series - that explains why I didn't really connect well with the main character. I might try number 1 one day though, so...
Want to read
October 10, 2018Synopsis: Claudia has been hired to look after Dolores Delgado. It's more like fun than work - until she drops dead.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews