Susan Russo Anderson
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
Nov 8, 20214 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
Nov 5, 20212 min read
Fina’s Backstory
Here’s an excerpt from Fina’s fifth book, a standalone Brooklyn mystery called Dorset in the Dark. In this scene, Fina’s just found a...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Nov 3, 20214 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
Nov 1, 20214 min read
Teo and the Specter
Teo is an orphan, about thirteen or fourteen, and a hero in Serafina’s short mystery, Death of a Sad Face. In this scene and for most of...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 31, 20213 min read
Boffo
Boffo is a bartender in No More Brothers, Serafina Florio’s second standalone mystery, a novella set in Sicily in the 1860s. In this...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 29, 20213 min read
Not Exactly
Death and Disappearance is the fifth standalone in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mysteries. While Denny battles demons of his own and...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 25, 20216 min read
Lorraine
In 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
Oct 22, 20214 min read
The Plumber
Here’s a scene from Fina’s latest standalone, Death on Atlantic Avenue. It’s told from the point of view of Fina’s half-sister, Kate....
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 20, 20212 min read
At Lucy’s
Here’s part of a scene from Missing Brandy. Fina’s talking to the reader, telling her backstory. I decided to take a walk down Henry...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Breakfast at Serafina’s
Here’s a scene from Death of a Serpent, the first standalone in the Serafina Florio mystery series. It’s full of characters and family...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 17, 20212 min read
Caprice in her Soul
Rosa is the sidekick in the Serafina Florio mysteries, a series set in a fictitious town in Sicily in the 1860s. In the first book, Death...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 15, 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
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Lola
Lola works in Rosa’s establishment. That is, she’s a prostitute in Death of a Serpent—and a good one, Rosa tells me. She stars in this...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 11, 20212 min read
Breathless
Death of a Brooklyn Landlord: When newly widowed Lorraine McDuffy gets a call in the middle of the night, it’s not the ghost of her dead...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 8, 20212 min read
A Mind Lost in its own Labyrinth
This is a slice from Missing Brandy. It’s the second book in the Fina Fitzgibbons Brooklyn mystery series. In this scene, Fina and...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 6, 20211 min read
In the Face of Her Holiness
In this excerpt from Missing Brandy, Fina’s second standalone, Fina and her nemesis are riffling through the pages of a suspect’s address...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 4, 20213 min read
Don’t Hang Up
In this scene from The Brooklyn Drop Fina’s estranged father shows up on her doorstep. And when I say estranged, I mean ESTRANGED. A...
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Susan Russo Anderson
Oct 1, 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
Sep 29, 20212 min read
A Sympathetic Smile
Here’s an excerpt from Missing Brandy. It’s the story of a thirteen-year-old’s abduction. In this scene, the PoV is indirect, told in the...
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