Marele Day Marele Day is a writer, teacher and freelance editor. Her poems, stories and literary criticism have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines but she is best known for her thrillers featuring private eye Claudia Valentine -The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender, The Case of the Chinese Boxes, The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado (for which she won the Shamus Crime Fiction Award), and The Disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi. Read More Read Less