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Clara is a USA TODAY bestselling author of historical cozy mysteries. The Stella & Lyndy Mystery series is about an unlikely couple who mix love, murder, and horse racing in Edwardian England. MURDER AT MORRINGTON HALL kicks off the series. MURDER AT KEYHAVEN CASTLE, the third book in the series, was selected as a Historical Novel Society's Editor's Choice and voted one of the BEST cozy mysteries of 2021 by SUSPENSE MAGAZINE. Her latest release, MURDER ON GLENLOCH HILL, a USA TODAY Bestseller, follows the couple to Scotland to attend The Open golf championship.

The Hattie Davish Mystery series follows a Victorian traveling secretary who solves crimes in every American town she visits. From Newport, RI to Eureka Springs, AR to the nation's capital, Hattie outwits temperance leaders, senators, outlaws, civil war veterans, and more! A LACK OF TEMPERANCE begins it all.

Clara is a member of Sisters in Crime and the founding member of Sleuths in Time, a cooperative group of historical mystery writers who encourage and promote each other's work.

With an incurable case of wanderlust, she travels every chance she gets, the UK being a favorite destination. When she can't get to the UK, she's happy to write about it from her home in Iowa.