Claire McNab

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.


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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 [hide]
1 Works
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

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WorksLesbian Crime Novels
Carol Ashton Series
Lessons In Murder (1988)
Fatal Reunion (1989)
Death Down Under (1989)
Cop Out (1991)
Dead Certain (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
Murder Undercover (2000)
Death Understood (2000)
Out of Sight (2001)
Recognition Factor (2002)
Death by Death (2003)
Murder at Random (2005)    Kylie Kendall Series
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)

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