About Claudia Breland
Author • Researcher • Lifelong Story-Seeker
For decades, Claudia Breland helped people uncover the truth about their past. As a professional genealogist, librarian, and researcher, she specialized in finding answers hidden in census records, courthouse archives, and family Bibles.
Now she tells stories of her own.
Claudia’s fiction is rooted in the places she feels deeply connected to, Michigan cities and towns like Detroit, Lansing, Beulah, Manistee, and Naubinway, and built around the questions that shaped her work:
What really happened? Who gets remembered? And what do we carry forward from those who came before us?
Her novels blend family mysteries, historical detail, and the quiet power of women uncovering their truths with just enough research woven in to satisfy even the most curious reader.
She’s the author of:
Home to Beulah (2024)
North to Naubinway (2024)
The Murder of Rhoda Jones (2025)
...and coming soon, Snoqualmie Bound
Before turning to fiction, Claudia was a professional genealogist and frequent contributor to publications including Archives.com, APG Quarterly, and others. She’s taught workshops across the U.S. and has been invited to speak on everything from DNA testing to courthouse research to writing family histories.
Claudia lives just outside Seattle, where she’s close to her children and granddaughter. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, curled up with a good book, surrounded by the quiet hum of family stories she’s yet to tell.