Cleo Coyle

Join Cleo's Coffee Club for bonus recipes and giveaways: Click Here to Subscribe to Cleo’s Free NewsletterCLEO COYLE is the New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. With more than 1 million books sold, they have gained an enthusiastic following. Cleo's "relenlessly entertaining" (Criminal Element) novels have earned starred reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus, Best of Year selection honors from multiple reviewers, and have been recommended by Booklist and Library Journal as among the best cozy mysteries for core library mystery collections. When not haunting coffeehouses, hunting ghosts, or wrangling their rescue cats, Alice and Marc are New York Times bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, Toho, and MGM. One of those projects (ghostwritten by Alice Alfonsi) was named by Entertainment Weekly as the best media tie-in book written that year.CONNECT WITH CLEO at CleoCoyle.com and CoffeehouseMystery.com*******CLEO'S TWO BESTSELLING SERIES:Cleo’s Coffeehouse Mystery series, celebrated for pioneering both the “urban cozy" and “coffee cozy” mystery 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 Mystery series, hailed as a highly original and "utterly charming" (Mystery Scene) 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.*******LATEST BOOK NEWS: Look for the newly released paperback edition of HONEY ROASTED #19 in Cleo Coyle's long-running Coffeehouse Mystery series. And coming November 2023 is Cleo's 20th Coffeehouse title BULLETPROOF BARISTA. Don't miss Cleo's latest Haunted Bookshop Mystery releases, including #8 in the series THE GHOST AND THE STOLEN TEARS praised by Kirkus as "A GEM OF A STORY." And just released this May 2023 is Cleo's 9th Haunted Bookshop mystery, a #1 audiobooks category bestseller for Amazon: THE GHOST GOES TO THE DOGS.