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
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)
- Brewed Awakening (Berkley Prime Crime, December 2019, ISBN 978-0451488879)
Notes
- http://www.gumshoereview.com/php/Review-id.php?id=1042
- http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6590845.html
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2008-09-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.soapcentral.com/ps/news/2001/0226-bestseller.php
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2008-09-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
Library resources about Cleo Coyle |
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- Cleo Coyle on the Berkley Prime Crime Publisher's website
- Gumshoe Review interview with Alice Alfonsi
- Cozy Library website profile of Alice Kimberly/Cleo Coyle
- Library Journal entry on Cleo Coyle
- Soap Central article on Hidden Passions
- New York Times adult hardcover fiction best sellers list 2001
- HarperCollins website
- Interview with Marc Cerasini about the Wolverine prose novels
- Cleo Coyle's official website