Cleo Coyle

CLEO COYLE is the New York Times bestselling pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing popular fiction in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. With more than 1 million books sold, Alice and Marc have authored more than 25 works in their two long-running, “relentlessly entertaining” mystery series.

Praised as a “master of misdirection” by Mystery Scene magazine, Cleo Coyle has been awarded starred reviews by Library Journal and Kirkus, honored with Best of Year selections by multiple reviewers, and recommended by Booklist and Library Journal for core library mystery collections.

Cleo’s Coffeehouse Mystery series, celebrated for pioneering both the “coffee” and “urban cozy” genres, follows the adventures of amateur sleuth Clare Cosi, a single mom with a complicated love life who manages a Greenwich Village coffeehouse and a quirky crew of baristas while helping the NYPD solve perplexing crimes.

Cleo’s Haunted Bookshop series, hailed as a highly original blend of cozy and hardboiled genres, features an earnest young New England widow who catches criminals with the help of a gumshoe ghost, the irresistible spirit of a tough private detective who’d been gunned down in her bookshop decades before.

In addition to their critically acclaimed mysteries, Alice and Marc have written multiple works of fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. They are also accomplished tie-in writers who have created bestselling properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, Toho, and MGM.

Originally from Western Pennsylvania, Alice and Marc live in New York City, where they haunt coffeehouses, hunt ghosts, wrangle rescue cats, cook like crazy, and write independently and together.