About
Catherine Maiorisi, an award winning romance, mystery, and general fiction author, writes of the NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery series featuring Corelli and her reluctant partner, Detective P.J. Parker. The books in the series are: A Matter of Blood, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, The Blood Runs Cold, a GCLS Goldie finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, A Message in Blood, a GCLS Goldie finalist, Legacy in the Blood, a GCLS Goldie finalist, and Blood of the Innocents.
Catherine’s romances include Matters of the Heart, No One But You, Ready for Love, Taking a Chance on Love, and Love Among the Ruins winner of the 2024 Goldie for Best Romance. The Disappearance of Lindy James, her first general fiction, won the 2022 Goldie for Best General Fiction.
Her romance short stories are included in four Bella Books’ anthologies—Happily Ever After, Conference Call, In This Together and Whispers in the Stacks. “Come as You Want to Be” and “The Fan Club” are standalone short stories available on the Bella website. Her four mystery short stories can be found in the Murder New York Style Anthologies—Fresh Slices, Family Matters, Where Crime Never Sleeps and Justice for All.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the Golden Crown Literary Society.
Visit Catherine at www.catherinemaiorisi.com.
Featured Work
Blood of the Innocents
When singer Alessandra Moreau is found brutally murdered in New York State Senator Leigh Drayman's living room, NYPD Detectives Chiara Corelli and P.J. Parker are thrust into another high-stakes investigation. The victim, a rising star, harbored a closely guarded secret shared with only three people. She was transgender—just like the senator.
What begins as a focused investigation into three suspects explodes into something far more sinister when thirteen identical murders of trans women surface from the past two years. As the body count rises, Corelli and Parker uncover two additional cold cases from nearly two decades ago that could hold the key.
But their quarry is clever, methodical, and has been hiding behind a perfect disguise for years. In a race against time, the detectives must unravel decades of deception before another woman dies.
