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Florence James (1902–1993), author and literary agent; Rebecca James (born 1970), young adults' fiction writer; Wendy James (born 1966), crime novelist; Winifred Lewellin James (1876–1941), novelist and travel writer; Emma Jane (born 1969), novelist and media commentator; Charlotte Jay, pseudonym of Geraldine Halls (1919–1996), mystery writer
The following is a list of female writers in the detective and mystery genres. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Harper became a New York Times bestselling author for The Dry. [18] Reese Witherspoon bought the rights to The Dry to turn it into a movie, which was released in January 2021. [19] The Lost Man was shortlisted for the 2020 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, [20] and won the Barry Award for Best Mystery/Crime Novel in 2020. [21]
Marele Day (born 4 May 1947) is an Australian author of mystery novels. She won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novel [ 1 ] and a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction work How to Write Crime .
[8] Following The Thorn Birds, McCullough wrote her magnum opus: seven novels on the life and times of Julius Caesar, each a colossus weighing in at up to 1,000 pages. The Masters of Rome series preoccupied her for almost 30 years, from the early 1980s to the publication of the final volume in 2007. The research was a monumental task: a library ...
Mary Helena Fortune (c. 1833 – 1911) was an Australian writer, under the pseudonyms "Waif Wander" and "W.W." She was one of the earliest female detective writers in the world, [1] and probably the first to write from the viewpoint of the detective. Never financially secure, she wrote prolifically over several genres including poetry ...
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), [1] known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901.
Audrey Roos (1912–1982) (pseudonym Kelley Roos; co-author with husband William Roos) William Roos (1911–1987) (pseudonyms William Rand and Kelley Roos; the latter in collaboration with his wife Audrey Roos) Barnaby Ross (pseudonym for Ellery Queen) Kate Ross (1956–1998) S. J. Rozan (born 1950) Garry Ryan; Ryukishi07 (born 1974)