French Pressed (28 page)
Authors: Cleo Coyle
Tags: #Fiction, #Detective, #Mystery, #Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, #Fiction - Mystery, #Mystery & Detective - General, #Coffeehouses, #Suspense, #Cosi; Clare (Fictitious character), #American Mystery & Suspense Fiction, #Employees, #Restaurants
Cleo Coyle
is the pen name for a multipublished author who collaborates with her husband to write the Coffeehouse Mysteries. Although they did not meet until adulthood, Cleo and her husband had very similar upbringings. Both were children of food-loving Italian immigrants; both grew up in working-class neighborhoods outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and both held blue-collar jobs in food service before moving to the Big Apple to begin their postcollege careers: Cleo as a journalist and children’s book author; and her husband as a magazine editor and writer. After finally meeting and falling in love, they married at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas. Now they live and work in New York City, where they each write books independently and together, cook like crazy, haunt local coffeehouses, and drink
a lot
of joe. Among their many co-authored projects are the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, written under the pen name Alice Kimberly.
Cleo enjoys hearing from readers.
Visit her virtual Village Blend coffeehouse at
www.CoffeehouseMystery.com,
where she also posts recipes and coffee news.
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Authentic French pots de crème cups include tiny lids for each individual cup. For variations on this recipe, as well as a recipe for a crème Chantilly topping, visit www.CoffeehouseMystery.com.