Susan Russo Anderson
In the Place du Palais Royal
Serafina Florio’s fourth mystery, Murder on the Rue Cassette takes place in Paris in the early 1870s. Serafina is commissioned by a...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Apr 14, 20222 min read
I Don’t Want to Hear This
In this scene from Death in Bagheria, Serafina’s third standalone mystery, Serafina and her sidekick, Rosa—a retired madam and Serafina’s...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Mar 4, 20222 min read
Inside A Dream
No More Brothers is Serafina’s second standalone mystery set in nineteenth-century Sicily. Here’s a scene from the novella. It takes...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Jan 12, 20222 min read
Don Tigro’s Backstory
Don Tigro is the recurring villain in the Serafina Florio historical mysteries. His story begins in Death of a Serpent, Serafina’s first...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Jan 9, 20223 min read
A Small Shop near the Seine
“Something about the store yellowed the light, antiqued the world and made it turn more slowly.” Murder On The Rue Cassette is Serafina’s...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Jan 7, 20226 min read
Lorraine
n the present time, Fina’s mother-in-law can do no wrong. But this wasn’t always true. In Fina’s first book, Too Quiet in Brooklyn, Fina...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Jan 5, 20222 min read
Inside A Dream
No More Brothers is Serafina’s second standalone mystery set in nineteenth-century Sicily. Here’s a scene from the novella. It takes...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Jan 3, 20224 min read
Jerry
Jerry is one of my favorite characters. He is an artist who does whatever his older brother, his caretaker, asks him to do. He opens...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Jan 2, 20224 min read
Still in Mourning
The following domestic scene from No More Brothers takes place in Sicily in 1870. Serafina and her son have just come home. I wrote it to...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 31, 20214 min read
A Mass of Writhing Snakes
Dorset in the Dark, a standalone novel, is the sixth book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Summary: On a cold spring...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 29, 20211 min read
Introducing Serafina
Serafina Fiori, midwife and sleuth, was born in 1827 to parents of the merchant class in Trano Mare, a fictional village near Palermo in...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 27, 20212 min read
Genes From Himself
Missing Brandy is the second standalone in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Throughout the book, the kidnapped Brandy...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 26, 20212 min read
Into That Mighty Interstellar Darkness
What were the thoughts of a nineteenth-century woman when she looked up at the stars? Here is Serafina in a scene from Death of a...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 24, 20212 min read
Her Mouth in a Positive Stretch
In this scene from Fina’s fifth stand-alone Brooklyn mystery, Death and Disappearance, her nemesis calls in the middle of the night—her...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 22, 20213 min read
Dressing for Dinner
Death in Bagheria is Serafina’s third mystery. She is commissioned to investigate the death of a baroness who lived in Bagheria. In the...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 20, 20212 min read
The Runner Creep
Missing Brandy is the second novel in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Like all the other books, it’s a standalone. In this...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 19, 20216 min read
A Pork Chop Between His Teeth
A missing teen ... A Rent-Gouging Brooklyn Landlord ... Death of a Brooklyn Landlord is Lorraine McDuffy’s first murder mystery. Up to...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Dec 5, 20214 min read
Nanette, A Character in Distress
Nanette Arrowsmith is a character in distress. She’s just lost her son. In this scene from Too Quiet in Brooklyn, Fina and Lorraine pay...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Nov 14, 20212 min read
Inside a Dream
No More Brothers is Serafina’s second standalone mystery set in nineteenth-century Sicily. Here’s a scene from the novella. It takes...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Nov 12, 20214 min read
A Mass of Writhing Snakes
Dorset in the Dark, a standalone novel, is the sixth book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. Summary: On a cold spring...
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