Claire Hamner Matturro has been a journalist in Alabama, a lawyer in Florida, an organic blueberry farmer in Georgia, and taught at Florida State University and University of Oregon.

She now lives with her husband in SW Florida.

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, and Trouble in Tallahassee (KaliOka Press). She remains active in writers' groups and contributes to Southern Literary Review, Compulsive Reader, and the Alabama Writers Forum.