Claire Daines is a full-time mother of four sons who never sleep, and a dog who does nothing else. Her first encounter with Sherlock Holmes was 'Silver Blaze' at ten years old, and he's been on her radar ever since. Deep in the heart of the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand, Claire spends her days thinking of new ways to commit crime, and testing them out on hapless Victorian Londoners. The common thread among Claire's books is exploring alternate Holmesian universes: killing off Watson at Reichenbach Falls (she's still in hiding from outraged readers!), replacing Ebenezer Scrooge with Professor Moriarty, and sending the entire Holmes canon down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. And there are plenty more oddball ideas where those came from...When not plotting to help Moriarty take over the world, Claire enjoys baking, Sudoku, and beating her husband at badminton.
