Jill Malone

Jill Malone is an American author whose novel A Field Guide to Deception (2009) won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction in 2010. The novel follows Jane, a lesbian detective investigating a murder in a small Pacific Northwest town, navigating the tensions between her professional and personal life. Malone has written several novels for Bywater Books, an independent press specialising in lesbian fiction. Her work is known for its Pacific Northwest settings, its complex characterisation, and its engagement with questions of identity and justice. She has been active in the lesbian literary community for many years. Malone lives in the Pacific Northwest.