It is my pleasure to share with you the cover for the next book in the “Chiara Corelli” mystery series, coming February 2025 and now up for preorder.

Publication Date: February 18, 2025
Publisher: Bella Books
Format: Print, Digital
Name of Series: Chiara Corelli ~ Book 5
Genre: Traditional Mystery
Author Website: catherinemaiorisi.com

Book Synopsis
After recording the last interview of a month-long media extravaganza orchestrated by the brass, NYPD Detectives Chiara Corelli and P.J. Parker are hoping for time out of the spotlight working cold cases and/or solving low profile murders. But the brutal murder of Alessandra Moreau, a singer on track to becoming a superstar, in the living room of New York State Senator Leigh Drayman, a trans woman, is anything but.

Besides Drayman, only Moreau’s twin sister and her wife knew she was a trans woman, so Corelli and Parker focus their attention on three suspects—the agent/manager stealing from her, a man from her attorney’s office who assaulted her, and H, a rejected lover who she fears.

But the investigation, like a kaleidoscope, constantly changes. And when they find thirteen trans women murdered in exactly the manner as Moreau in just over two years, their focus changes and they enlist the senator’s help to get the NYPD to set up a task force to investigate the murders of trans women.

With the murder of two more trans women in New York City, the killer seems to be taunting them. But they are no closer to finding him then they were after Moreau was murdered. And then, an extended search reveals two much older cases, one sixteen and the other seventeen years ago.

As they dig deeper into those early murders, they eliminate suspects and begin to focus on the one with motive, means and opportunity.

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About the author
Catherine Maiorisi is the author of the NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery series featuring Corelli and her reluctant partner, Detective P.J. Parker. These two tough women fight each other and stand against the blue wall while solving high profile crimes. The four previous 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, and Legacy in the Blood. Catherine has also published five romances, a general fiction novel, and multiple romance and mystery short stories. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She is also a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society.