Diane Vallere

National bestselling author Diane Vallere writes funny and fashionable character-based mysteries. After two decades in luxury retailing, she traded fashion accessories for accessories to murder. 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. Diane started her own detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since. Diane-Fans describe “her vintage Vallere goodness,” and say she is a “great storyteller” with “a way with creating strong female characters and intrigue” who is “a superb and very humorous writer.” Her gift of creating “spunky sleuths in fun settings” take readers to Dallas, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, and outer space. DIANE'S SERIES: 👗 Killer Fashion Mysteries (humorous mysteries with many mentions of pretzels) ✨ Madison Night Mysteries (cozy/traditional mysteries winking at Doris Day movies) 🚀 Sylvia Stryker Sky Crimes and Misdemeanors (mystery in outer space) 🧵 Material Witness Mysteries (fabric shop, cozy) 🎭 Costume Shop Mysteries (costume shop, cozy) 🧜‍♀️ Dead in the Water (Mermaids!) 🧠 Non-fiction: Bonbons for your Brain