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Diane Vallere
Diane Vallere

DIANE'S SHORT BIO: 

Diane Vallere is the national bestselling author of multiple entertaining, character-driven mystery series. She edited the Agatha Award-winning essay collection Promophobia: Taking the Mystery out of Promoting Crime Fiction. Diane majored in art history at the College of William and Mary and worked in luxury retailing before trading fashion accessories for accessories to murder. She currently lives in Pennsylvania where she spends her free time organizing her shoes. Sign up for The Weekly DiVa to get girl talk, book talk, and life talk, at www.dianevallere.com/The-Weekly-Diva


DIANE'S SHORT BIO WITH SPACE TERMS (for fans of the Sylvia Stryker Mysteries):

National bestselling author Diane Vallere crafts humorous mysteries that are out of this world. After two decades navigating the galaxy of luxury retailing, she swapped designer accessories for accessories to murder, propelling her career into the stratosphere. As past president of the national Sisters in Crime organization, she edited the Agatha-Award-winning essay collection PROMOPHOBIA: Taking the Mystery out of Promoting Crime Fiction, rocketing the conversation about marketing crime fiction to new heights. Diane launched her own detective agency at the age of ten, and her passion for shoes, clues, and clothes has been in orbit ever since.


DIANE'S FULL BIO: 

Diane Vallere is the national bestselling author of over forty books, including the Material Witness and Madison Night series. She also writes the Killer Fashion Mysteries and the Sky Crimes science fiction mystery adventures. She edited the Agatha Award-winning essay collection Promophobia: Taking the Mystery out of Promoting Crime Fiction. She has contributed short stories to several anthologies, most recently "Tread Man Walking" in MURDER IN THE AIR: a Destination Murders Short Story Collectionand "We Don't Get Along" in MURDER-A-GO-GO’s: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Go's (Down & Out Books).

​Diane served as president of both local (Los Angeles) and national boards of Sisters in Crime and is currently an active member in the Delaware Valley chapter. She is a frequent attendee at mystery conferences: Malice Domestic Mystery Convention, Bouchercon, Left Coast Crime, New England Crime Bake, Writers Police Academy, and Homicide School for Writers. She served as co-chair of California Crime Writers Conference. Her newsletter, The Weekly DiVa, has an active following, focusing on girl talk, book talk, and life talk.

​Diane is a graduate of The College of William and Mary with a BA in Fine Arts and has spent over twenty years working in the retail fashion industry. ​After living in Dallas and Los Angeles, Diane is back in Pennsylvania where she spends her free time watching classic movies or curled up with a book.

Praise

"Vallere approaches the material with a light touch…. When the solution comes, it’s clever and satisfying. Readers in the mood for a low-stakes whodunit will be charmed." (Review of RANCH DRESSING)

– Publishers Weekly

"Vallere stitches an intrepid heroine together a nicely layered plot that fits well with the fabric imagery. The secret of the velvet makes for a clever surprise. Fans of Jenn McKinlay’s Hat Shop novels may also enjoy this small-town cozy." (Review of SUEDE TO REST)

– BookList

"Make room for Vallere’s tremendously fun homage. Imbuing her story with plenty of midcentury-modern decorating and fashion tips, not to mention a steady patter of Doris Day trivia, Vallere debuts a well-paced cozy series. Her disarmingly honest lead and two hunky sidekicks will appeal to all fashionistas and antiques types and have romance crossover appeal." (Review of PILLOW STALK)

– Library Journal

Series

Designer Dirty Laundry
Buyer, Beware
The Brim Reaper
Some Like It Haute
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A Killer Fashion Mystery

National bestselling author Diane Vallere delivers a stylish cozy series with a hilarious amateur sleuth! Join Samantha Kidd as she trades high fashion for dirty laundry and learns a great wardrobe isn't enough to turn her life around, let alone catch a killer. Each book...

Murder on a Moon Trek: Fly Me to the Moon
Scandal on a Moon Trek: I’m Your Venus
Hijacked on a Moon Trek: Saturn Night Fever
Framed on a Moon Trek: Spiders from Mars
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Sylvia Stryker Space Mysteries

The Sylvia Stryker Space Mysteries feature uniform lieutenant/amateur sleuth Sylvia Stryker on the Moon Unit Cruise Ship. Destination: various moons around the galaxy. Sylvia is joined by Neptune, a tough security dude who may or may not be an ally, Pika, a pink alien...

Pillow Stalk
Midnight Ice
That Touch of Ink
With Vics You Get Eggroll
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A Madison Night Mystery

The Madison Night Mystery Series features forty-seven-year-old mid-century modern interior decorator Madison Night who has modeled her life and business after Doris Day. It takes place in Dallas, Texas. Madison is joined by her Shih Tzu, Rock.

In this series you get:

A...

Suede to Rest
Crushed Velvet:
Silk Stalkings
Tulle Death Do Us Part
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Material Witness Mysteries

“There’s a new material girl in town…[A] resourceful and gutsy sleuth.”—Krista Davis, New York Times bestselling author of the Domestic Diva Mysteries

The Material Witness mystery series features pageant dress designer Polyester Monroe who inherits the fabric shop where...