Alice Alfonsi

(Rosemary Grace)


aka , Rosemary Grace, Alice Kimberly

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

Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini grew up with Italian parents in working-class neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alice Alfonsi graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Marc Cerasini graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. 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.

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