Her twenty-five year career has been driven by an effort to understand motivation, especially that which appears most extreme. Those questions anchor Claudia’s first book, The Spider and the Fly: a Reporter, a Serial Killer and the Meaning of Murder, which is forthcoming from HarperCollins at the end of January 2017. A work of literary nonfiction and memoir, The Spider and the Fly explores questions of race, misogyny and the mutual manipulation at the heart of the relationship between a writer and her source.