Following a career in business, Claire MacLeary gained an MLitt with Distinction from the University of Dundee.
Her Harcus and Laird series, featuring unlikely crime duo Maggie and Wilma, is published by Saraband under its Contraband imprint. Her short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies.
A native Glaswegian, Claire spent her childhood in the Highlands and currently lives between Edinburgh and St Andrews.