Claire Matturro admits she used to be a dog person. But then she rescued a black kitten and there was no going back. She's been a journalist in Alabama, a lawyer in Florida, an organic blueberry farmer in Georgia, and taught at Florida State University College of Law and as a visiting professor of legal writing one long, snowy winter at the University of Oregon. She now lives with her husband and two rescued cats in Florida, where it doesn't snow. Her books are: Skinny-Dipping (a BookSense pick, Romantic Times' Best First Mystery, and nominated for a Barry Award); Wildcat Wine (nominated for a Georgia Writer of the Year Award); Bone Valley and Sweetheart Deal (winner of Romantic Times' Award for Most Humorous Mystery), all published by William Morrow. She remains active in writers' groups and contributes regularly to Southern Literary Review.
