G.M. Malliet is the Agatha Award-winning author of the acclaimed St. Just mysteries, the Max Tudor mysteries, the standalone suspense novel WEYCOMBE, and numerous short stories collected in crime anthologies or published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Strand. One of her short stories, "Whiteout," is currently nominated for a 2020 Macavity award. (Winners will be announced October 2020 at the virtual Bouchercon.)
Film rights to all seven Max Tudor novels are under option.
She is represented by literary agent Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group, New York, NY. The film agent for the Max Tudor series is Mary Alice Kier of Cine/Lit Representation, Los Angeles, CA. Detailed contact information can be found at gmmalliet.com/contact.html.
Agatha Christie is the main inspiration and model for her crime writing. Her modern-day favorites include Ruth Ware and Tana French; her TV favorites range from Midsomer Murders to Mindhunter to Better Call Saul. The Doc Martin series is a further inspiration for its wonderfully comic storylines and village setting. Malliet calls her own writing "on the spectrum between cozy/traditional and twisty."
She was raised in an Air Force family which meant moving every three or four years and living in a dozen states including Alaska and Hawaii and countries including Japan and the UK. Wherever she and her family were stationed, their house was full of books and well-thumbed copies of the New Yorker magazine. Her mother, especially, read the local news cover-to-cover because that's where the real stories were. Missing dogs, rescued cats, and break-ins--the stuff of real life. Her father was a James Thurber fan.
She has a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in psychology; she also received an M.Phil. degree from the University of Cambridge (psychology of education) and did graduate study in sociology at Oxford University. Later she worked in marketing communications for corporations like USA Today and PBS. The events of 9-11 made her feel, with P.D. James, it was Time to Be in Earnest: "I found that if I didn't settle down and write a novel, I'd end up an old lady telling my grandchildren that I had always wanted to be a writer." She began (in earnest) writing short stories on weekends and each day before work, initially submitting her work to anthologies and competitions. In 2008, her award-winning first novel (DEATH OF A COZY WRITER) was published.
Along with five Agatha and three Anthony nominations, she’s 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. Among other nominees was winner JK Rowling.
A fourth St. Just book (working title: ST. JUST IN CORNWALL) will be published in 2021 after a ten-year hiatus for the series.
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. 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.
The seventh Tudor novel, IN PRIOR'S WOOD, was published in April 2018. She is currently writing a new crime series, an experimental standalone, and polishing half a dozen short stories.
She is a former at-large board member of Sisters in Crime National and a member of Mystery Writers of America (Mid-Atlantic Chapter), International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers.
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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