Meet The Author with Claire M. Johnson

Please join us on Tuesday, March 10th from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. PT as Claire M. Johnson discusses her newest novel, City Lights, with our own, Jennifer Morita.

Claire M. Johnson's first novel, Beat Until Stiff, was nominated for the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was a Booksense pick. Fog City, my noir crime novel set in Prohibition-era San Francisco featuring Maggie Laurent, P.I., was published in 2024 from Level Best Books. In 2025, Fog City was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel from the Private Eyes Writers of America and was the winner of the Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery by Mystery Readers International. This book is the first in the Fog City Noir series. The second book in this series, City Lights, was published in 2025 and has been nominated for a the 2026 Lefty for Best Historical Mystery. The third book in this series, Crookedest Street in the World, will debut in June 2026. Shifting gears, her historical fiction novel, For Thee, is a first-person narrative of Pauline Pfeiffer’s marriage to Ernest Hemingway. This novel won the gold medal from The Florida Writers Association’s Royal Palm Literary Award, and will also be published in June 2026.  You can find out more at: