Anthologies

SoWest: Danger Awaits!, SoWest: Wrong Turn, SoWest: Love Kills, Breaking Boundaries: SouthWest 2025 Contest Winners, Peace, Love, and Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the '60s

Short Stories

"A Grave Development," "After the Rush Fades," "April Fools," "The Backpack," "Chains," "Charlotte's Mining Days," "Cheating Death," "Come Hell or High Water," "The Double Black Diamond," "The Drop," "Family Rate," "Kobyashi Maru," "Lucky Seven," "Miss Aggie's Pigs," "Most Likely to Succeed," "Onta, Tell Me a Story," "The Pixie Path Home," "Spirit in the Sky," "Tinsel"

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Biography

Claire A Murray writes full-time, dabbles in painting, and lives on a steady diet of Zoominars and write-ins for connection, inspiration, and sanity. She writes reviews for Kings River Life Magazine, belongs to the Short Mystery Fiction Society, Mystery Writers of America, four SinC chapters, and is president of Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter and a lifetime National member. Lead Editor for Desert Sleuths 2025's SoWest: Danger Awaits! and 2023's SoWest: Wrong Turn anthologies she also has a collection of short stories, Play the Hand You’re Dealt. In competitions, she has earned first place, Honorable Mention, and third place (twice). Claire is completing a suspense fantasy novel and the first book of a trilogy while an amateur sleuth novel awaits final edits.