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Maria DiRico

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Maria DiRico (the 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. On her father’s side, her grandfather was a low-level Jewish mobster who disappeared in 1933 under mysterious circumstances. While growing up in Queens, Maria/Ellen's cousins ran the Astoria Manor and Grand Bay Marina catering halls.

As Ellen Byron, her Cajun Country Mysteries have won multiple Agatha award and Lefty awards. BAYOU BOOK THIEF, the first book in her Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, has been nominated for Agatha and Lefty awards as well. Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like WINGS, JUS
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January 2021 Cozy Mystery Poll

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Which Cozy Mystery selection would you like to read in January?

Here Comes the Body (Catering Hall Mystery #1) by Maria DiRico
 
  14 votes, 43.8%

Murder at an Irish Wedding (Irish Village Mystery #2) by Carlene O'Connor
 
  12 votes, 37.5%

Last Writes (A Jaine Austen Mystery #2) by Laura Levine
 
  6 votes, 18.8%

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