Mystery/Suspense Trade Paperback Publication February 2002 Price $17.95 ISBN: 0595213073 273 pages - Size 6" x 9" Print on Demand Available through iUniverse: 1-877-823-9235

Meet Helen Maquire. Your typical run-of-the-mill law school graduate. She's paid out the nose for a diploma, moved back home, and opened her own law practice, hoping to make some money. It all sounded pretty easy. However, nothing comes easily for Helen. First, she moves into the wrong office, in the wrong location. Next, she chooses the wrong partner, then the wrong client. She's on the verge of losing it when she learns her predecessor died in a mysterious car crash. None of this has anything to do with Helen. Or does it?

A member of Mystery Writers of America, Claire Elstun has been writing professionally for years. She began her career working as a trial attorney. Her passion for writing developed when she started designing business plans for venture capital groups. She has recently written several screenplays that are being reviewed by Hollywood producers. Creekside is about one small town, without a history of homicide, except once. While Live Bait involves five bored and broke high school graduates who take a too-good-to-be-true summer job running luxury power boats from Ft. Lauderdale to Bimini. Her second novel, Persona Non Grata, is an international thriller set in London. Persona Non Grata, is due out in 2003.

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Claire Elstun P.O. Box 1781 Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 USA claire@nidaho.net