Kate Clark Flora (1949 - )

Genre: Non-Fiction, Mystery

Flora grew up on a poultry farm in Union, where her mother, A. Carman Clark, lived until her death in 2005. Flora, who attended the University of Maine but graduated from Tufts (1971) and Northeastern Univ. (Law, 1976), lives on Bailey Island, Maine, with her husband, lawyer Kenneth Cohen. They have two sons, Max and Jake.

Flora has written 15 mysteries, including her Thea Kozak series, Chosen for Death (1994), Death in a Funhouse Mirror (1995), Death at the Wheel (1996), An Educated Death (1997/1999), Death in Paradise (1998/2000), Liberty or Death (2003); and Stalking Death (2008); and a police procedural set along the Maine coast, Playing God: A Joe Burgess Mystery (2006). Flora has also published a book under her given name, Katharine Clark, called Steal Away (1998), as well as another under the name Kate Clark Flora, Silent Buddy (1995), about Ross McIntyre, a small town high school biology teacher in Maine. In 2006, she and Joseph K. Loughlin of the Portland Police Dept. published a non-fiction book, Finding Amy: The True Story of Murder in Maine, about an unusual police investigation that resulted in the imprisonment of a 'psychopath' who murdered a young Biddeford woman in 2001. She co-edited Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers (2006), along with Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw.

Flora's Web site is called Kate's Lair. Flora has taught mystery writing at the Cambridge Center for Adult Ed. and at the Cape Cod Writer's Conference. She frequently speaks on Sisters-in-Crime panels and to library organisations. In fact, her brother John Clark is a Maine librarian.


Last Update: 02/07/2009

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