Claudia Valentine Series by Marele Day (1-2, 4-5)
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Overview: Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb. She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers’ College and in 1973 obtained a degree from Sydney University. She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during the 1980s.
Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based private investigator but her breakthrough novel was Lambs of God which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers; it became a bestseller. She lives on the New South Wales North coast.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Book 1 – The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender
Claudia Valentine must play a deadly high-tech game with the menacing overlord of Sydney’s cancerous network of crime and corruption in Marele Day’s wryly humorous, witty and fast-paced mystery.
Mark Bannister, writing ‘the bestseller of the century’ is found dead at his computer – the victim of a murder so perfect that Claudia Valentine smells a rat… and wants it caught.
The chase leads deep into the murky underworld of Sydney – a world where bright, tough Claudia must play a deadly high-tech game of cat and rat with the menacing overlord of the city’s cancerous network of crime and corruption.
Witty, wryly humorous and fast-paced, The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender is a mystery with a twist, which brilliantly exposes the seamy action below the surface of the city’s glittering facade.
Book 2 – The Case of the Chinese Boxes
Claudia Valentine is pulled into a world of ancient treasures and modern Triad killings, through sleazy back streets and exotic oriental temples, where nothing is ever what it seems. Another sassy, witty and thrilling instalment in Marele Day’s bestselling series.
The New Year started with a bang in Sydney’s Chinatown – and it wasn’t just the fireworks. While the rest of the country were celebrating, the biggest bank job in Australia’s history was taking place.
The press dubbed it ‘The Great Chinese Takeaway’. And inside those stolen safety deposit boxes were items of much more value than money.
Claudia Valentine is called in by the Chen family who are desperate for the return of a gold key embellished by a dragon. The hunt for this family heirloom spins her into a world of ancient treasures and modern Triad killings, through sleazy back streets and exotic oriental temples. And, everywhere, nothing is as it seems.
Book 4 – The Disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi
It is the start of a long, hot summer and Madalena Grimaldi has disappeared. Claudia is hired to find the missing schoolgirl but she’s already working on a case – the death of Guy Valentine, her father.
As Claudia searches the streets, looking for the ghost of her derelict father and for the mysterious man who can lead her to Madalena, she finds herself sinking into a world where, for many, rock bottom is only the beginning.
Book 5 – Mavis Levack, P.I.
Mavis Levack would like a career, adventure – heavens above there are only so many days a week you can play bowls. Sixty-ish and an incurable busybody, Mavis is also a serious and earnest investigator. Her career begins when she is drawn into the investigation of the killing of a neighbour after a visit from P.I. Claudia Valentine and then becomes her right-hand woman.
Eva’s Angel: Nye is an Australian painter with an international reputation. He lives mainly in Italy and has arranged a mentorship scheme whereby he takes young Australian artists under his wing for twelve months. However there is something not quite right about the whole situation with Nye, and two of his students begin to wonder if he is connected to the murder of young tourists in the area.
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