G.M. Malliet

G.M Malliet is an American mystery author that made her name with the popular St. Just Mystery and the Max Tudor series. Malliet attended college in the United Kingdom getting her graduate degree from Cambridge before proceeding to Oxford University for her postgraduate studies. After completing her studies, she worked in journalism and copywriting, writing and performing a range of duties for several broadcasters and publications, before deciding to become a professional author. Her debut novel was “Death of a Cozy Writer” that was published in 2008, and went on to win an Agatha for best first novel in the same year. Growing up in a military family, she would be constantly on the move with her family. She has lived in Japan, Hawaii, Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, and Alaska, but her time in the UK was one her most memorable. Perhaps her memories of the UK are what inform the setting of her novels in Oxford and Cambridge. Given that she had little time to make friends given that the family moved so often, she became the poster child for a bookworm spending most of her time reading mysteries particularly Agatha Christie.