- Claire McNab
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Claire McNab (b. 1940 in Australia) is the pseudonym of Claire Carmichael. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. While pursuing a career as a high school teacher in Sydney, she began her writing career with comedy plays and textbooks. She left teaching in the mid-eighties to become a full-time writer. In her native Australia she is known for her self-help and children's books.
She is best known for 14 crime novels featuring the highly popular Detective-Inspector Carol Ashton and six featuring undercover agent Denise Cleever. Her latest series features Kylie Kendall, an Australian transplanted to Los Angeles, who determines to become a private investigator in order to pursue her fathers business and his business partner.
McNab has served as the president of Sisters in Crime and is a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America. She is a 2006 Medal Winner of the Alice B. Awards and was nominated for the 1996 Lammy Award Lesbian Mystery Award.[citation needed]
She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and now teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.[1]
In addition to crime fiction, McNab has published children's novels, picture books, self-help, and English textbooks.
She returns to Australia at least once a year to refresh her aussie accent.
Contents
Works
Lesbian crime novels - Carol Ashton Series
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- Lessons In Murder (1988)
- Fatal Reunion (1989)
- Death Down Under (1989)
- Cop Out (1991)
- Dead Certain/Off Key (1992)
- Body Guard (1994)
- Double Bluff (1995)
- Inner Circle (1996)
- Chain Letter (1997)
- Past Due (1998)
- Set Up (1999)
- Under Suspicion (2000)
- Death Club (2001)
- Accidental Murder (2002)
- Blood Link (2003)
- Fall Guy (2004)
- Lethal Care (2010)
- Denise Cleever Series
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- Murder Undercover (2000)
- Death Understood (2000)
- Out of Sight (2001)
- Recognition Factor (2002)
- Death by Death (2003)
- Murder at Random (2005)
- Kylie Kendall Series
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- Wombat Strategy (2004)
- Kookaburra Gambit (2005)
- The Quokka Question (2005)
- Dingo Dilemma (2006)
- Platypus Ploy (2007)
Lesbian romance
- Under the Southern Cross (1992)
- Off Key (1992)
- Silent Heart (1993)
- Writing My Love (2006)
Non-fiction
- The Loving Lesbian (1997) (with Sharon Gedan)
See also
- Lesbian literature
- List of mystery writers
- List of female detective/mystery writers
- List of female detective characters
- Detective fiction
- Crime fiction
References
- ^ Fox, Katrina (January, 2006), "A Curious Woman", SX News, http://www.katrinafox.com/clairemcnab.htm, retrieved 2007-08-27.
External links
Categories:- American women writers
- American novelists
- LGBT writers from the United States
- Lesbian writers
- Australian women writers
- Australian novelists
- LGBT writers from Australia
- 1940 births
- Living people
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