Meet The Author

Claire M Johnson

Claire M Johnson completed the California Culinary Academy’s program for professional chefs in 1983 and worked as a pastry chef in San Francisco and Oakland for eight years. Set in the restaurant world, Ms. Johnson’s first novel, Beat Until Stiff, won the 1999 Malice Domestic Writer’s Grant, was a Booksense pick, and was nominated for an Agatha as Best First Novel. Her second book in this series is Roux Morgue, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Ms. Johnson  lives in Northern California and eats out as much as possible. http://www.rouxmorgue.com/author.html