top of page
Search


Maria on the Moon
I first saw her years ago in St. Sulpice, hunched over her cane and walking down a side aisle, a beldame in black armband, the craters...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 31, 20212 min read
Â
Â
Â


Meet Lorraine McDuffy
Death of a Brooklyn Landlord is the first book in a spinoff series. It takes place in Brooklyn and Manhattan and stars several characters...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 30, 20218 min read
Â
Â
Â


Murder Doesn’t Happen All at Once
An Excerpt from Too Quiet In Brooklyn, the first book in the Fina Fitzgibbons mystery series Early the next day before we set our for New...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 29, 20212 min read
Â
Â
Â


Terre de Fer Frog, a True Story
On one of our trips to Paris in the 1980s, Larry and I found this pitcher in a small shop near the Seine. We had to have it, we told the...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 28, 20212 min read
Â
Â
Â


Columbus Park, Lower East Side
One of New York City’s oldest greens, Columbus Park gave immigrant children of the 1900s their own special place. Then it was located in...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 27, 20213 min read
Â
Â
Â


Barco’s Circus
Serafina Florio is the main character of my historical mystery series. She lives in Sicily in the nineteenth century. She’s a widow with...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 25, 20213 min read
Â
Â
Â


Via Giulia, An Ageless Beauty
Via Giulia is a quiet Roman street close to the Tiber. Located on the southwestern edge of the Campo dei Fiori, it runs today as it did...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 23, 20213 min read
Â
Â
Â


A Tour of Oltramari
My outspoken character, Serafina, midwife and sleuth, takes you on a tour of her hometown. The Serafina Florio mysteries take place in...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 23, 20213 min read
Â
Â
Â


A Little More More
I still have a picture of you taken on the Pont Alexandre III long before we met, your favorite bridge you told me one day when we were...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 21, 20212 min read
Â
Â
Â


A Tip to Crush Writer’s Block
The best tip I ever read was this: just write. Sort of like, just do it. Sit. Get a pen or pencil. Or sit at a computer, start Notes or...

Susan Russo Anderson
May 20, 20211 min read
Â
Â
Â
Blog: Blog2
bottom of page