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Claudia Valentine #5
Mavis Levack, P.I
Mavis Levack would like a career, adventure - heavens above there are only so many days a week you can play bowls. Sixty-ish and an incurable busybody, Mavis is also a serious and earnest investigator. Her career begins when she is drawn into the investigation of the killing of a neighbour after a visit from P.I. Claudia Valentine and then becomes her right-hand woman.
Eva's Angel: Nye is an Australian painter with an international reputation. He lives mainly in Italy and has arranged a mentorship scheme whereby he takes young Australian artists under his wing for twelve months. However there is something not quite right about the whole situation with Nye, and two of his students begin to wonder if he is connected to the murder of young tourists in the area.
Eva's Angel: Nye is an Australian painter with an international reputation. He lives mainly in Italy and has arranged a mentorship scheme whereby he takes young Australian artists under his wing for twelve months. However there is something not quite right about the whole situation with Nye, and two of his students begin to wonder if he is connected to the murder of young tourists in the area.
192 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2000
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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.
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October 30, 2019
Disappointing. Nothing to indicate that this is a collection of very short stories and only loosely connected to the Claudia Valentine series I enjoyed so much. Mavis Levack is meant to be a comical but I couldn't warm up to her.
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