Maria DiRico
Maria DiRico, a pen name of award-winning author Ellen Byron, was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Queens and Westchester County. She is first-generation Italian-American on her mother’s side.
Similar Authors: Ellen Byron, Maddie Day, Linda Reilly.
The Catering Hall Mysteries
After her philandering husband’s boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she’s got a whole new life—including some amateur sleuthing.