G.M. Malliet is the award-winning author of the acclaimed St. Just mysteries, Max Tudor mysteries, suspense novel WEYCOMBE, and numerous short stories collected in crime anthologies or published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (EQMM) and The Strand.
Two new short stories will appear from her in 2022-23 in EQMM ("The Pact" and "Something Blue"), and St. Just returns in a full-length mystery novel in October 2021 (UK launch followed by US launch).
She is represented by literary agent Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group, New York, NY. Contact information for Mr. Gottlieb can be found at gmmalliet.com/contact.html.
She was born into a military family and moved frequently during her childhood. She has a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in organizational psychology; she also received an M.Phil. in the psychology of learning from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. and did further graduate study at Oxford University. Her main field of interest is the psychology of the creative mind.
She worked in corporate communications for organizations such as Thomson Publishing and PBS. In 2008 her award-winning first novel DEATH OF A COZY WRITER was published. Soon after, mystery writing became her full-time career.
Along with five Agatha and three Anthony nominations, her work has been shortlisted for the Macavity, Left Coast Crime, IPPY, Daphne, David, and Dilys awards. The audio version of her second novel (DEATH AND THE LIT CHICK), read by Davina Porter, was a 2014 Anthony nominee. The Anthony Awards are given each year at Bouchercon, the book industry's premier crime conference in the U.S.
The fourth St. Just book, DEATH IN CORNWALL, was published October 2021.
Her series from Macmillan's Minotaur imprint featuring Max Tudor, a former MI5 agent turned vicar of a small English village, debuted in the autumn of 2011 with WICKED AUTUMN. Of the fourth book in the series, Cleveland.com raved: "[Malliet] may be the best mystery author writing in English at the moment (along with Tana French). She's certainly the most entertaining."
Her standalone suspense novel WEYCOMBE appeared in October 2017. She donated $5000 of the proceeds from sales of the book to the American Red Cross, to aid the victims of Hurricane Harvey and other natural disasters.
She is currently writing a new series and polishing half a dozen short stories.
Her short story, "Whiteout," was nominated for a 2020 Macavity award. She has twice been a finalist (2020 and 2021) for the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers' Choice Award. In 2021 she was also nominated for a Derringer for her EQMM novella, "A Murder at Morehead Mews."
She is a former board member of Sisters in Crime National and a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the U.K.'s Crime Writers' Association.
You can visit her at GMMalliet.com, facebook.com/g.m.malliet, instagram.com/g.m.malliet, pinterest.com/gmmalliet, and at twitter.com/GMMalliet.
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