Serafina Florio’s fourth mystery, Murder on the Rue Cassette takes place in Paris in the early 1870s. Serafina is commissioned by a...

In this scene from Death in Bagheria, Serafina’s third standalone mystery, Serafina and her sidekick, Rosa—a retired madam and Serafina’s...

No More Brothers is Serafina’s second standalone mystery set in nineteenth-century Sicily. Here’s a scene from the novella. It takes...

Don Tigro is the recurring villain in the Serafina Florio historical mysteries. His story begins in Death of a Serpent, Serafina’s first...

“Something about the store yellowed the light, antiqued the world and made it turn more slowly.” Murder On The Rue Cassette is Serafina’s...

n the present time, Fina’s mother-in-law can do no wrong. But this wasn’t always true. In Fina’s first book, Too Quiet in Brooklyn, Fina...

No More Brothers is Serafina’s second standalone mystery set in nineteenth-century Sicily. Here’s a scene from the novella. It takes...

Jerry is one of my favorite characters. He is an artist who does whatever his older brother, his caretaker, asks him to do. He opens...

The following domestic scene from No More Brothers takes place in Sicily in 1870. Serafina and her son have just come home. I wrote it to...

Dorset in the Dark, a standalone novel, is the sixth book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Summary: On a cold spring...

Serafina Fiori, midwife and sleuth, was born in 1827 to parents of the merchant class in Trano Mare, a fictional village near Palermo in...

Missing Brandy is the second standalone in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Throughout the book, the kidnapped Brandy...

What were the thoughts of a nineteenth-century woman when she looked up at the stars? Here is Serafina in a scene from Death of a...

In this scene from Fina’s fifth stand-alone Brooklyn mystery, Death and Disappearance, her nemesis calls in the middle of the night—her...

Death in Bagheria is Serafina’s third mystery. She is commissioned to investigate the death of a baroness who lived in Bagheria. In the...

Missing Brandy is the second novel in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Like all the other books, it’s a standalone. In this...

A missing teen ... A Rent-Gouging Brooklyn Landlord ... Death of a Brooklyn Landlord is Lorraine McDuffy’s first murder mystery. Up to...

Nanette Arrowsmith is a character in distress. She’s just lost her son. In this scene from Too Quiet in Brooklyn, Fina and Lorraine pay...

No More Brothers is Serafina’s second standalone mystery set in nineteenth-century Sicily. Here’s a scene from the novella. It takes...

Dorset in the Dark, a standalone novel, is the sixth book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Summary: On a cold spring...