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  Legal Mystery Books Featuring Lilly Belle SKINNY-DIPPING, WILDCAT WINE, BONE VALLEY, and the newest one--SWEETHEART DEAL (William Morrow Oct. 30, 2007). For the official Claire Matturro website, go to www.clairematturro.com. But to learn about Lilly's adventures, her recipes, excerpts from books directly about Lilly, her diet secrets, recipes, gossip (including book tour events), her favorite trail mix bars, and more, jump on in here. But please check back soon, as this site is still under construction. Lilly Belle's New Adventure “Before [Lilly Cleary] and her African-American best friend Shalonda can sort out everything that’s rotten in Bugfest, they’ll be involved with fire ants, smuggling, bribery and kidnapping. But Cleary never loses her gift for wry self-mockery, as when she confides that 'what had me worried was how quick I was getting down to my last box of Save the Forest Organic Trail Mix Bars.'” Kirkus Review And Romantic Times Mystery Reviews gives Sweetheart Deal its highest rating, calls Claire Matturro "crafty and talented," and says of Sweetheart Deal, "Wonderful weirdness abounds." What the Critics have to say about Lilly Belle “…the main attractions here are the hair-raising details of a mining industry the author believes to be dangerously under-regulated, and [Lilly] Cleary's cheerful, distinctly American narrative voice.” Washington Post on Lilly in Bone Valley “Lilly Cleary is an oddball magnet whose workaholic lifestyle is constantly interrupted by the harmless eccentrics that have become a staple of Florida crime fiction. In her second outing alone, "Wildcat Wine" (Morrow, $23.95), we meet a pet psychic, an alien abductee and a former childhood sweetheart with a truck full of Florida-grown Muscatine wine, a dead body and a bag of stolen cash.” Jay MacDonald, TROPICALIA, on Lilly in Wildcat Wine. “Florida lawyer Lilly Belle Cleary has a major career goal: to make enough money so she can retire early to her Georgia farm and never again hear about torts, briefs or summary judgments. That's why she eschews fancy automobiles, expensive homes and lavish vacations -- the ‘golden handcuffs’ keeping her fellow lawyers at the Gulf Coast's top law firm in Sarasota. But in the meantime, she deals with a lot of stupid clients, frivolous lawsuits and greedy, back-stabbing colleagues. And that's on the good days.” By Oline H. Cogdill, Tribune Newspapers: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, on Lilly in Wildcat Wine. “Lilly is smart, funny and real.” Kirkus Review on Lilly in Bone Valley “Like Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey, two native Floridians with whom she shares a tropical satiric bent, [Claire] Matturro pumps plenty of commentary about the despoilment of our flora and fauna into the adventures of Lilly Belle Rose Cleary, an obsessive-compulsive appellate attorney with a healthy libido.” The News-Press (Fort Myers, Florida)on Lilly in Wildcat Wine. A 2004 BookSense Pick! |
Good, clean gossip about James W. Hall, best-selling author of FOREST OF THE NIGHT and OFF THE CHARTS “Lilly Belle Cleary is a whip-smart trial lawyer with the heart of a buccaneer and the soul of a lady bountiful. Who else could save wounded birds and take on greedhead polluters running on one granola bar and a couple of glasses of organic wine?” Virginia Swift, author of BYE, BYE LOVE and HELLO STRANGER Praise for SWEETHEART DEAL (Lilly's next adventure, on sale October 30, 2007) "Breezy and fun." Kirkus Review Praise For BONE VALLEY "...like Hiaasen, [Matturro] keeps you with her all the way, laughing or gulping." Washington Post "Funny and tough, and full of wacky characters who are utterly real, this is a mystery, a legal thriller, and a serious novel rolled into one." James W. Hall, best-selling author of FOREST OF THE NIGHT and OFF THE CHARTS |
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