Cleo Coyle

CLEO COYLE is the New York Times bestselling pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, collaborating with her husband, Marc Cerasini. With more than 1 million copies of their books sold, Alice and Marc have gained an enthusiastic following. Their long-running Coffeehouse Mystery series celebrates its 22nd entry this fall with the publication of EAT, DRINK, AND GET BURIED ("an excellent read"), just released and already an Amazon Category Bestseller. THE GHOST AND THE DEAD LIBRARIAN, an exciting new adventure in Cleo's beloved "Haunted Bookshop" world is also releasing this fall and was honored with a *Starred Review and "Mystery Pick of the Month" by Library Journal.

Cleo's "relentlessly entertaining" novels have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Czech; earned starred reviews from Kirkus and Library Journal; received Best of Year selection honors from multiple reviewers; and have been recommended by Booklist as among the best culinary mysteries for core library mystery collections.

"Cleo" (aka) Alice Alfonsi grew up in a small town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After earning scholarships to study creative and professional writing at Carnegie Mellon and American Universities, she began her career as a cub reporter for The New York Times. Now an author of popular fiction and bestselling media tie-in writer (who even served as ghostwriter for an Entertainment Weekly media tie-in Best Book of the Year), Alice lives and works in New York City, where she first met her husband and collaborator, Marc Cerasini, a New York Times bestselling author of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction and also originally from the Pittsburgh, PA, area. After meeting and falling in love, Alice and Marc were married at the legendary Little Church of the West.

Working independently and together, Alice and Marc have created bestselling tie-in properties for NBC, Lucasfilm, Disney, Fox, Imagine, Toho, and MGM. When not haunting coffeehouses, hunting ghosts, or wrangling their rescued stray cats, they cook like crazy and drink a lot of java.