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

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...

Here’s an excerpt from Fina’s fifth book, a standalone Brooklyn mystery called Dorset in the Dark. In this scene, Fina’s just found a...

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...

Teo is an orphan, about thirteen or fourteen, and a hero in Serafina’s short mystery, Death of a Sad Face. In this scene and for most of...

Boffo is a bartender in No More Brothers, Serafina Florio’s second standalone mystery, a novella set in Sicily in the 1860s. In this...

Death and Disappearance is the fifth standalone in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mysteries. While Denny battles demons of his own and...

In 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...

Here’s a scene from Fina’s latest standalone, Death on Atlantic Avenue. It’s told from the point of view of Fina’s half-sister, Kate....

Here’s part of a scene from Missing Brandy. Fina’s talking to the reader, telling her backstory. I decided to take a walk down Henry...

Here’s a scene from Death of a Serpent, the first standalone in the Serafina Florio mystery series. It’s full of characters and family...

Rosa is the sidekick in the Serafina Florio mysteries, a series set in a fictitious town in Sicily in the 1860s. In the first book, Death...

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

Lola works in Rosa’s establishment. That is, she’s a prostitute in Death of a Serpent—and a good one, Rosa tells me. She stars in this...

Death of a Brooklyn Landlord: When newly widowed Lorraine McDuffy gets a call in the middle of the night, it’s not the ghost of her dead...

This is a slice from Missing Brandy. It’s the second book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. In this scene, Fina and...

In this excerpt from Missing Brandy, Fina’s second standalone, Fina and her nemesis are riffling through the pages of a suspect’s address...

In this scene from The Brooklyn Drop Fina’s estranged father shows up on her doorstep. And when I say estranged, I mean ESTRANGED. 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...

Here’s an excerpt from Missing Brandy. It’s the story of a thirteen-year-old’s abduction. In this scene, the PoV is indirect, told in the...