Cleo Coyle
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Cleo Coyle is the pen name for American mystery writers Alice Alfonsi in collaboration with her husband Marc Cerasini, best-known for the Coffeehouse Mysteries (Berkley Prime Crime), a series of cozy mysteries set in and around a fictional coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.[1]
Biography
[edit]Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini both grew up with Italian parents in working-class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2] Alfonsi graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cerasini graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. In New York, Alfonsi worked as a journalist and book author; Cerasini as a magazine editor, literary critic and fiction and nonfiction author. The couple met in Manhattan and married at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas.[3] They live in New York City.
Alfonsi was the ghostwriter for Hidden Passions, a novelization of the NBC soap opera Passions,[4] which spent seven weeks on the 2001 New York Times hardcover fiction bestsellers list.[5][6] Cerasini has written four novels in the 24: Declassified series of original Jack Bauer adventures based on the Fox TV series 24. He also wrote two original novels for Marvel Comics featuring Wolverine.[7] His nonfiction includes The Future of War: The Face of 21st Century Warfare (Alpha Books, 2003).
Among their co-authored projects are the Haunted Bookshop mysteries (Penguin Group), originally written under the pen name Alice Kimberly and later published under their Cleo Coyle name.[8] The paranormal cozy mystery series is set in and around an independent bookstore in Rhode Island, and features the ghost of a hardboiled PI from the 1940s who helps the modern-day bookshop owner solve crimes.
Novels
[edit]The Coffeehouse Mystery Series
[edit]- On What Grounds (2003, ISBN 0-425-19213-X)
- Through the Grinder (2004, ISBN 0-425-19714-X)
- Latte Trouble (2005, ISBN 0-425-20445-6)
- Murder Most Frothy (2006, ISBN 0-425-21113-4)
- Decaffeinated Corpse (2007, ISBN 978-0-425-21638-5)
- French Pressed (2008, ISBN 978-0-425-22049-8)
- Espresso Shot (2008, ISBN 978-0-425-22177-8)
- Holiday Grind (2009, ISBN 978-0-425-23005-3)
- Roast Mortem (2010, ISBN 978-0-425-23459-4)
- Murder by Mocha (2011, ISBN 978-0-425-24143-1)
- A Brew to a Kill (August 2012, ISBN 978-0-425-24787-7)
- Holiday Buzz (November 2012, ISBN 978-0-425-25535-3)
- Billionaire Blend (December, 2013, ISBN 978-0-425-25291-8)
- Once Upon a Grind (December, 2014, ISBN 978-0-425-27085-1)
- Dead to the Last Drop (December, 2015, ISBN 978-0-425-27609-9)
- Dead Cold Brew (January, 2017, ISBN 978-0-425-27611-2)
- Shot In the Dark (April, 2018, ISBN 978-0-451-48884-8)
- Brewed Awakening (December 2019, ISBN 978-0451488879)
- Honey Roasted (January 2022, ISBN 978-0593197561)
The Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series
[edit]- The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
- The Ghost and the Dead Deb
- The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library
- The Ghost and the Femme Fatale
- The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion
- The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller
- The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait
- The Ghost and the Stolen Tears
- The Ghost Goes to the Dogs
Citations
[edit]- ^ "Interview: Cleo Coyle (Alice Alfonsi & Marc Cerasini)".
- ^ Library Journal on Cleo Coyle
- ^ "Cozy Library profile of Alice Kimberly/Cleo Coyle]". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
- ^ Article on Hidden Passions
- ^ New York Times adult hardcover fiction best sellers list 2001
- ^ Bestsellers, 2-26-2001
- ^ Interview with Marc Cerasini on the Wolverine novels
- ^ Cozy Library profiles, Alice Kimberly/Cleo Coyle