G. M. Malliet is an American author of mystery novels and short stories. She is best known as the author of the award-winning Detective Chief Inspector St. Just mysteries and the Rev. Max Tudor mysteries. The first book in her US-based series, Augusta Hawke, appeared in 2022.
Malliet's first books followed DCI St. Just on a series of cases, all of which involved writers of mystery novels and other genres.[1][2] Her second series, the Max Tudor mysteries, takes place in the fictional English town of Nether Monkslip, and features a vicar who is a former MI5 agent.[3] Her third series, the Augusta Hawke mysteries, takes place in Old Town, Virginia, US, and features a crime writer turned sleuth and private eye.
Awards and honors
Her first novel, Death of a Cozy Writer, won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel,[4] and her books Wicked Autumn, A Fatal Winter, Pagan Spring, and A Demon Summer have all been short-listed for the Agatha Best Novel award.[5] She received a Malice Domestic Grant in 2003 to write Death of a Cozy Writer.[6]
Malliet's books Death of a Cozy Writer and Death and the Lit Chick were both nominated for Anthony Awards.[7]Death of a Cozy Writer was also nominated for the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery.[8] Several of her short stories - published in anthologies, in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and in The Strand - have been nominated for writing awards.
She is represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group in New York City.
