About
Lee Clark is the author of the Matthew Paine Mystery series of murder mystery novels: Dead Spots, Prefer Death, MIA, Christmas Punch, Iced, Forbidden Relics, and Killer Convergence.
According to multiple reviews across the book series on goodreads and Amazon, Clark "writes like Agatha Christie," and is reminiscent of Margaret Maron and Louise Penny. A North Carolina native, Clark grew up in Raleigh with family roots in Virginia. An admitted chocoholic and coffeeholic, Lee Clark still resides in North Carolina with spouse, two mostly grown children who are in and out, and a dwindling petting zoo of geriatric dogs and cats.
Lee Clark attended Campbell University, obtained a degree in Journalism from East Carolina University, and then a Master’s in Technical Communication from North Carolina State University. Following a twenty year career in the software development industry of corporate America at IBM, Clark turned to writing fiction in 2021 with the release of Dead Spots, the first in the Matthew Paine Mystery series.
Featured Work
Killer Convergence -- A Matthew Paine Mystery (#7)
They lied about everything.
He won’t stop until he uncovers the truth.
Twenty-two years ago they said it was a murder-suicide. They lied. It was just murder. They assassinated his parents as a warning, and now Detective Warren Danbury will stop at nothing to uncover who annihilated his family – and destroyed their reputation.
As young physician Matthew Paine assists his close friend Danbury to tenaciously reexamine these murders, evidence goes missing, memories can’t be trusted, and witnesses start turning up dead.
Paine and Danbury race against the clock to uncover the conspiracy that has not only survived for more than two decades, but grown in power and violence over time. The key to unlocking this deadly scheme and learning the truth about the murder of Danbury’s parents: Kenya.
Now past and present; truth and lies; survival and murder all collide in a deadly and action-packed climax that finally answers the two questions that have haunted Danbury for twenty-two years: Who murdered his parents and why?
Lee Clark’s Killer Convergence is the nail-biting unputdownable seventh book in the Matthew Paine Mystery series.
