Lia Matera (born 1952) is a Canadian author of two series of mystery novels and short stories.
She graduated from Hastings College of Law in 1981.
She was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School in the early 1980s.
She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
[2] Two of Matera's works have received starred reviews from Booklist: Face Value (Simon & Schuster, 1994)[3] and Last Chants (Simon & Schuster, 1996).