The Four Queens of Crime

Praise for The Four Queens of Crime:LIBRARY JOURNAL - STELLAR SELECTIONS | BEST BOOKS 2025LIBRARY JOURNAL’S DECEMBER DEBUT OF THE MONTH!“Limoncelli makes a splash with her riotously entertaining debut … A note-perfect Golden Age pastiche with a satisfying metafictional twist.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“The inclusion of real historical figures adds to the enjoyment of Limoncelli’s traditional mystery. Fans of Christie or Rhys Bowen will appreciate the details of the gala and the prewar intrigue.”—Library Journal, starred review“Period details and information about the lives of the four Queens of Crime and Wyles are skillfully woven through this fascinating cozy.”—Booklist“An ingenious plot … a brilliant debut.”—NY Journal of Books“Mystery fans will love this novel featuring the queens of the genre.”—Historical Novel Society“Sparkling wit, ingenious plotting.”—Audiofile“A fun read for fans of classic ‘whodunnit’ mysteries from start to finish … Brilliant.”—Midwest Book Review“Rosanne Limoncelli knocks it out of the park in her debut mystery.”—Cozy Mystery Book Reviews“This book highlights the power of feminism and women working together.”—Fresh Fiction“Teaming up the four writers is genius, the dialogue snappy and the story good. Hopefully, there will be more adventures with these four.”—Red Carpet Crash“A properly thorny mystery and a delightful portrayal of the Queens of Crime. Readers will love this clever story. Its style harkens back to the Golden Age of crime fiction and also introduces them to the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID at Scotland Yard. An artful debut!” —Anna Lee Huber, USA Today bestselling author“The most devious minds of mystery’s Golden Age tackle a murder none of them could have invented, to delightful effect.”—Stephanie Barron, author of the Jane Austen mysteries

Rosanne Limoncelli, PhD, is a writer, filmmaker, and roller skater living in Brooklyn. Her short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Suspense Magazine, and Noir Nation, and her short films have been screened in festivals around the world. Rosanne also writes plays, screenplays, poetry, games, mysteries, and science fiction. She has taught writing and filmmaking for more than three decades at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.