Narrates part of the novel. She is a Detective Sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department....
Claire is black and heavyset; she always jokes, "Im in shape... rounds a shape." Claire is wise, confident, kind, and the Chief Medical Examiner for San Francisco. She is married to Edmund, a kettle drum-player in the San Francisco Symphony Or...
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A top-tier crime reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. In 14th, she has just written a true crime book. Her live-in boyfriend is Rich(ie) Conklin....