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

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

Note: The Girl with the Golden Earrings is free September 23 - 27, 2021 Ash Bogle is a character in distress. He is eternal, of course,...

No More Brothers is Serafina Florio’s second mystery, a novella. It takes place on the northwest coast of Sicily in 1867. Summary. When...

Phoebe Daligan is one of my favorite characters. I think of her often. In this scene, she’s being interviewed by Fina. Early the next day...

Here’s Fina in the middle of the night, sitting on the edge of her bed and thinking about her mother’s last days. The monologue is from...

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

We shall never forget.

This is the opening scene from Death on Atlantic Avenue, Fina’s eighth Brooklyn mystery standalone. Her half sister, Kate is alone in her...

In this scene from Death of a Serpent, Rosa and Serafina, along with their daughters, are on a train rolling their way to Bagheria—in...

In Death of a Serpent, Serafina’s first mystery, three prostitutes have died. As part of her investigation, Serafina Florio, main...

Death and Disappearance is the fifth book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Like all Fina’s novels, it is a standalone....

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...

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

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

Tonight it visits me again as if for the first time. I am standing on the Pont St. Louis in the early ’70s with the river beneath while...

In this excerpt from an unpublished short story, Serafina introduces her family. Serafina is a midwife and sleuth who lives in...

Meet Detective Jane Templeton and her partner, Willoughby. They are NYPD detectives and recurring characters in the Fina Fitzgibbons...

Death in Bagheria is the third book in the Serafina Florio mystery series. Serafina investigates the death of a baroness, and in this...