Charlene D'Avanzo

Charlene D'Avanzo writes environmental mysteries, including cli-fi - climate fiction. She did her doctoral research in marine ecology in Woods Hole, MA, is an award-winning environmental educator, and now lives and writes on the Maine coast.

Charlene won Mystery Writers of America's McCloy Award for new writers. "Cold Blood, Hot Sea", first in her Mara Tusconi Oceanography Mystery Series, is a Foreward Reviews INDIES Finalist. "Demon Spirit, Devil Sea", book two, an "enchanting tale from an ancient corner of the earth" (Mary Woodbury, curator of Eco-fiction.com), won an IPPY (Independent Publishers) award.

Paul Doiron, author of the Mike Bowditch mysteries, says Charlene is "a natural storyteller and a passionate scientist who brings both aspects of herself in her third novel, 'Secrets Haunt the Lobsters' Sea'". Barbara Ross, Maine Claimebake Mystery author, calls the book a "spellbinding mystery about the secrets of lobsters and the people who trap them". "Secrets" is a Foreward Review INDIES finalist.

Read more about the author and her books at charlenedavanzo.com.