G.M. Malliet is the award-winning author of four St. Just mysteries, seven Max Tudor mysteries, the suspense novel WEYCOMBE, and numerous short stories collected in crime anthologies or published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (EQMM) and The Strand. New short stories will appear in 2022 and 2023 in EQMM ("The Pact" and "Something Blue"). A new mystery series (AUGUSTA HAWKE) debuts in July 2022 and a fifth St. Just novel in August 2023.
Her short story for EQMM, "The White Star," was recently nominated for a 2022 Macavity Award.
She is represented by literary agent Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group, New York, NY.
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 the University of Oxford. Her main fields of interest are memory and the psychology of the creative mind.
She worked as a journalist and copywriter for organizations such as Thomson Publishing and PBS, pursuing novel writing in her free time. In 2008 her award-winning first mystery DEATH OF A COZY WRITER was published and fiction writing became her full-time career. This initial series featured DCI St. Just and his sidekick, Sgt. Fear. She has since published dozens of books and short stories.
Along with five Agatha and three Anthony nominations, her work has been shortlisted for the Macavity, Left Coast Crime, IPPY, Daphne, David, Derringer, and Dilys awards. The audio version of her second novel (DEATH AND THE LIT CHICK), read by Davina Porter, was a 2014 Anthony nominee at Bouchercon.
Her series from Macmillan and Little/Brown 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 readying many of her short stories for publication. Her short story, "Whiteout," was nominated for a 2020 Macavity award. She has been a finalist three times for the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers' Choice Award. In 2021 she was 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, Instagram.com/g.m.malliet, and Twitter.com/GMMalliet.
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