I'm a writer, a mother, a grandmother, a widow, a member of Sisters In Crime, a graduate of Marquette University. I've taught language arts and creative writing, worked for a publisher, an airline, an opera company. Like Faulkner’s Dilsey, I've seen the best and the worst, the first and the last. Through it all, and to understand it somewhat, I write.

DEATH OF A SERPENT, the first in the Serafina Florio series, published January 2012. It began as a painting of the Lower East Side—one of my fav neighborhoods in NYC—and wound up as a mystery story set in nineteenth-century Sicily. NO MORE BROTHERS, a novella, published May 2012, the second in the series. The third book, DEATH IN BAGHERIA, published in December. TOO QUIET IN BROOKLYN is available for pre-release at Smashwords and Barnes & Noble where almost all my books are available. The first three Serafina Florio books are also available at Apple. (OMG, they're all over the place ... )