Wildcat Wine
William Morrow & Co.
May 1, 2005
ISBN-13: 0060567074
Available in: Hardcover
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Wildcat Wine
by Claire Matturro
From the supremely talented author of Skinny-dipping comes a wickedly funny and original suspense novel featuring the smart, sassy Lilly Cleary It's hard being Lillian Belle Rosemary Cleary. And if I didn't know that already, Bonita, my legal secretary supreme and secondary therapist, kept reminding me. "Carita," she said, shaking her head and handing me the pink highlighter at my hyperventilated request so that I could mark another obscure legal point I needed to memorize for my upcoming appellate argument. "You make this so much more difficult than it needs to be." So spank me, I'm a lawyer and complicating things at a high hourly rate is my specialty. Sometimes being a lawyer is the pits. At least that's what Lilly Cleary thinks. Lilly is a tough-as-nails attorney (and an obsessive-compulsive health nut) who works for a big firm in Sarasota, Florida. Just when she's got her hands full with a psychic client and a Nazi next-door neighbor who keeps reporting her to the police, an obnoxious partner in her firm is murdered. When the loyal Bonita surfaces as a key suspect, Lilly jumps knee-deep into the murder investigation and encounters a world-class assortment of weirdo suspects -- all of whom had good reason to want to knock the guy off.
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Claire Matturro's Bio
Claire Hamner Matturro has been a newspaper reporter, a lawyer, and taught at Florida State University College of Law. She spent one long, cold winter in Oregon as a visiting professor of legal writing at the University of Oregon School of Law. But her love of storytelling trumped the legal world, and Claire turned to writing fiction. 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’ Toby Bromberg Award for Most Humorous Mystery), all published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing. Claire remains active in writers’ groups and regularly contributes to Southern Literary Review. Look for her newest book, Trouble in Tallahassee, coming in September 2017.