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Clare O'Donohue

Born: 1964 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Clare ODonohue grew up on Chicagos South Side, the youngest of four children of Irish parents. She now lives in LaGrange, Illinois.

Biography: Clare began her writing career as a newspaper reporter for a small weekly paper outside Joliet, Illinois. She covered everything from school board meetings to murder trials, and wrote a weekly column. For the last thirteen years she has worked in television, writing and producing for shows on HGTV, truTV, The History Channel, Food Network, A&E and others. In 2008 she published her first novel, The Lover's Knot. She currently writes two mystery series: The Someday Quilts books about an upstate NY quit shop called 'Jane Marple on steroids' by Suspense Magazine, and The Kate Conway Mysteries about a freelance TV producer and the odd, funny and sometimes painful friendship she has forged with her late husband's mistress. Mystery Gazette has called the latest in the series, 'An exhilarating whodunnit with a psychological underpinning'


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Mystery

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: clare@clareodonohue.com
Website: http://www.clareodonohue.com
Clare O'Donohue on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=clare++o%27donohue


Selected Titles

A drunkard's path /
ISBN: 0452295580 OCLC: 301948582

Plume, New York : ©2009.

In the sleepy town of Archers Rest, Nell Fitzgerald is finishing her first quilt and preparing for her first date with the police chief, but she is stood up when the body of a murdered young woman has been discovered near the Hudson River. After a second body is found, Nell enlists the aid of her quilting circle to patch together clues.

A drunkard's path :
ISBN: 9781602855717 OCLC: 320436131

Center Point Pub., Thorndike, Me. : 2009.

In the sleeping town of Archers Rest, Nell Fitzgerald is finishing her first quilt and preparing for her first date -- with Police Chief Jesse Dewalt. When Jesse stands her up, it turns out he has a very good reason. The body of a murdered young woman has been discovered by the Hudson River. Meanwhile, the members of Nell's quilting circle encourage her to take drawing classes with the famous artist Olive White. When Nell's professor meets her grandmother, Eleanor, owner of the Someday Quilts Shop, he seems instantly smitten. But once another woman's body is found outside her grandmother's home under a blanket of snow, Nell begins to patch together the clues and follow a twisting path of evidence that suggests that her professor may have also perfected the art of murder.

  Life without parole
ISBN: 9780452297821 OCLC: 760974126

Plume, New York : ©2012.

Kate Conway's life is only getting more complicated in the wake of her husband's death. She's busy at work and feeling more stable but growing bored with ho-hum domesticated TV shows. So when she's offered a chance to produce a documentary about lifers in the state prison, she jumps at it. It's only a matter of time before someone turns up dead. And then the heat is on while Kate races to exonerate the innocent, uncover the guilty, and keep her own sanity--

Missing persons
ISBN: 9780452297067 OCLC: 676923054

Plume, New York : ©2011.

The cause of death is undetermined, but the cops peg Chicago television producer Kate Conway as the main suspect when her soon-to-be ex-husband, Frank, is found dead. To make matters worse-and weirder- Frank's new girlfriend suddenly wants to be friends. Happy for the distraction, Kate throws herself into a new work assignment for the television program Missing Persons: the story of Theresa Moretti, a seemingly angelic young woman who disappeared a year earlier. All Kate wants is a cliché story and twenty-two minutes of footage, but when the two cases appear to overlap, Kate needs to work fast before another body turns up -- her own.

The devil's puzzle
ISBN: 9781101551769 OCLC: 773693189

Plume, New York : ©2011.

After their quilting retreat upstate, the Someday Quilts ladies return to Archers Rest to prepare for the town's big anniversary celebration. But their plans are unexpectedly derailed by the discovery of a human skeleton in Nell's grandmother's backyard-making Eleanor the prime suspect in a murder. But a skeleton isn't the only thing that's long been buried. When a wave of vandalism raises fears that the town's bygone history of witchcraft has been reawakened, secrets are unearthed that could change life in Archers Rest forever.

The devil's puzzle /
ISBN: 0452297370 OCLC: 701493878

Plume, New York : ©2011.

After their quilting retreat upstate, the Someday Quilts ladies return to Archers Rest to prepare for the town's big anniversary celebration. But their plans are unexpectedly derailed by the discovery of a human skeleton in Nell's grandmother's backyard-making Eleanor the prime suspect in a murder. But a skeleton isn't the only thing that's long been buried. When a wave of vandalism raises fears that the town's bygone history of witchcraft has been reawakened, secrets are unearthed that could change life in Archers Rest forever.

The double cross :
ISBN: 0452296420 OCLC: 567155150

Penguin Group, New York : 2010.

"Nell Fitzgerald is thrilled to be able to take a break from her complicated romantic life in Archers Rest as she helps the women of Someday Quilts teach a quilting class at a new bed-and-breakfast in upstate New York. Her hopes for an idyllic escape disappear, however, when the inn's proprietor is found shot through the heart--and one of the members of the quilting group is named as the chief suspect. With smart, spirited Nell leading the charge to clear her friend's name, the ladies must rely on their craftiest thinking as they embark on their most personal case yet"--Page 4 of cover.

The double cross :
ISBN: 9781602858947 OCLC: 639940780

Center Point Pub., Thorndike, Me. : 2011.

When their rustic quilting retreat is disrupted by the discovery of a body in the woods, Nell Fitzgerald and the Someday Quilts ladies must rely on their craftiest thinking when one of their own becomes the chief suspect. By the author of The Lover's Knot. Original.

The lover's knot :
ISBN: 0452289793 OCLC: 225534439

Plume, New York : 2008.

Nell Fitzgerald's joy is short-lived when her fiance announces he's calling off the wedding. Heartbroken, Nell flees to her grandmother's home in quaint Archers Rest. When the body of a local handyman is found murdered in the quilt shop, Nell finds herself drawn into the case.

The lover's knot :
ISBN: 9781602852891 OCLC: 226966627

Center Point Pub., Thorndike, Me. : 2008.

Nell Fitzgerald, dumped by her fiancé in New York City, retreats to the comfort of her grandmother and small town life in little Archers Rest. Nell's grandmother runs the quilting shop Someday Quilts, and when a local handyman is found murdered in the store, Nell tries to piece together the puzzle of events.

 

 

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