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Cleo Coyle is the pen name for author Alice Alfonsi, who collaborates with her husband Marc Cerasini to write the Coffeehouse Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime, a division of Penguin Books

Penguin Books

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. This series of cozy mysteries is set in and around a fictional coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

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neighborhood of New York City

New York City

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Biography

Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini grew up with Italian parents in working class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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. Alice Alfonsi graduated from Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Marc Cerasini graduated from Ohio University

Ohio University

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in Athens, Ohio

Athens, Ohio

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. In New York, Alice Alfonsi worked as a journalist and book author; Marc Cerasini as a magazine editor, literary critic and fiction and nonfiction author. The couple met in Manhattan and married at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

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The writers live in New York City where they publish books independently and together. Alice was the ghost writer for Hidden Passions

Hidden Passions

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, ISBN 0-06-107605-8, a novel based on the off-beat, then-NBC

NBC

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soap opera Passions

Passions

Passions is an American television soap opera which aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007 and on The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008....

. The book spent seven weeks on the 2001 New York Times hardcover fiction best sellers list. Marc Cerasini has written four novels in the 24: Declassified series of original Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer

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adventures based on the Emmy-winning Fox Broadcasting television show 24

24 (TV series)

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. Marc has also written two original prose novels featuring the Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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character Wolverine

Wolverine (comics)

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.http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/features/marvelprose/marccerasini_1.asp His nonfiction includes The Future of War: The Face of 21st Century Warfare (Alpha Books, 2003, ISBN 0-02-864431-X), with an introduction by Colonel Jimmy Butler, United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

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Among their co-authored projects are the Haunted Bookshop mysteries, written under the pen name Alice Kimberly.

The Coffeehouse Mystery Series

On What Grounds (Berkley Prime Crime, 2003, ISBN 0-425-19213-X)
Through the Grinder (Berkley Prime Crime, 2004, ISBN 0-425-19714-X)
Latte Trouble (Berkley Prime Crime, 2005, ISBN 0-425-20445-6)
Murder Most Frothy (Berkley Prime Crime, 2006, ISBN 0-425-21113-4)
Decaffeinated Corpse (Berkley Prime Crime, 2007, ISBN 978-0-425-21638-5)
French Pressed (Berkley Prime Crime, 2008, ISBN 978-0-425-22049-8)
Espresso Shot (hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, 2008, ISBN 978-0-425-22177-8)
Holiday Grind (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, November 2009, ISBN 978-0-425-23005-3)
Roast Mortem (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, August 2010, ISBN 978-0-425-23459-4)
Murder by Mocha (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, August 2011, ISBN 978-0-425-24143-1)
A Brew to a Kill (Hardcover, Berkley Prime Crime, August 2012, ISBN 978-0-425-24787-7)

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