Cleo Coyle

Cleo Coyle is the pen name for author Alice Alfonsi, who collaborates with her husband Marc Cerasini to write the Coffeehouse Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime, a division of Penguin Books. This series of cozy mysteries is set in and around a fictional coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.[1]

Biography

Photo of married authors Alice Alfonsi Cerasini and Marc Cerasini.
New York Times best-selling authors Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini.

Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini grew up with Italian parents in working-class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2] Alice Alfonsi graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Marc Cerasini graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. In New York, Alice Alfonsi worked as a journalist and book author; Marc 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]

The writers live in New York City where they publish books independently and together. Alice was the ghost writer for Hidden Passions, ISBN 0-06-107605-8, a novel based on the off-beat, then-NBC soap opera Passions. The book spent seven weeks on the 2001 New York Times hardcover fiction bestsellers list.[4] Marc Cerasini has written four novels in the 24: Declassified series of original Jack Bauer adventures based on the Emmy-winning Fox Broadcasting television show 24. Marc has also written two original prose novels featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine. His nonfiction includes The Future of War: The Face of 21st Century Warfare (Alpha Books, 2003, ISBN 0-02-864431-X), with an introduction by Colonel Jimmy Butler, United States Air Force (Ret.).

Among their co-authored projects are the Haunted Bookshop mysteries, written under the pen name Alice Kimberly.[5]

The Coffeehouse Mystery Series

  • On What Grounds (Berkley Prime Crime, 2003, ISBN 0-425-19213-X)
  • Through the Grinder (Berkley Prime Crime, 2004, ISBN 0-425-19714-X)
  • Latte Trouble (Berkley Prime Crime, 2005, ISBN 0-425-20445-6)
  • Murder Most Frothy (Berkley Prime Crime, 2006, ISBN 0-425-21113-4)
  • Decaffeinated Corpse (Berkley Prime Crime, 2007, ISBN 978-0-425-21638-5)
  • French Pressed (Berkley Prime Crime, 2008, ISBN 978-0-425-22049-8)
  • Espresso Shot (hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, 2008, ISBN 978-0-425-22177-8)
  • Holiday Grind (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, November 2009, ISBN 978-0-425-23005-3)
  • Roast Mortem (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, August 2010, ISBN 978-0-425-23459-4)
  • Murder by Mocha (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, August 2011, ISBN 978-0-425-24143-1)
  • A Brew to a Kill (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, August 2012, ISBN 978-0-425-24787-7)
  • Holiday Buzz (Berkley Prime Crime, November 2012, ISBN 978-0-425-25535-3)
  • Billionaire Blend (Berkley Prime Crime, December, 2013, ISBN 978-0-425-25291-8)
  • Once Upon a Grind (Berkley Prime Crime, December, 2014, ISBN 978-0-425-27085-1)
  • Dead to the Last Drop (Berkley Prime Crime, December, 2015, ISBN 978-0-425-27609-9)
  • Dead Cold Brew (Berkley Prime Crime, January, 2017, ISBN 978-0-425-27611-2)
  • Shot In the Dark (Berkley Prime Crime, April, 2018, ISBN 978-0-451-48884-8)

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.gumshoereview.com/php/Review-id.php?id=1042
  2. ↑ http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6590845.html
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
  4. ↑ http://www.soapcentral.com/ps/news/2001/0226-bestseller.php
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
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