Claire McNab

Claire McNab was the pseudonym of Claire Carmichael (1940-2022), an Australian writer born in Melbourne. 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-1980s to become a full-time writer. In her native Australia, she is known for her self-help and children's books.

She was 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 father's business and his business partner.

McNab served as the president of Sisters in Crime and was 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 taught 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.

Works

Lesbian crime novels

Carol Ashton Series
- 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 (2012)

Denise Cleever Series
- Murder Undercover (2000)
- Death Understood (2000)
- Out of Sight (2001)
- Recognition Factor (2002)
- Death by Death (2003)
- Murder at Random (2005)