Legacy in the Blood: A Chiara Corelli Mystery

Written by Catherine Maiorisi

Narrated by Abby Craden

NYPD Detectives Chiara Corelli and P.J. Parker are assigned what should be a straight-forward murder investigation. But what seems to be the simple murder of a man found in a park gets more complicated when they identify him as Ned Rich, a somewhat paranoid investigative reporter who seems to be living above his means.

The more they dig, the more victims of Rich's blackmail they find. And figuring out which one killed him seems like an impossible task. But then they stumble on the project Rich was working on at the time of his death-a not so white supremacist and a threat to our democracy-and the focus of the investigation turns to people who will do anything to protect their reputations and the secrecy of their traitorous goals.

Undeterred by the threats and attacks, Corelli and Parker battle to drag the traitors into the light-and put their lives on the line to defend all they believe in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Apr 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666160307

Catherine Maiorisi

Catherine Maiorisi lives in New York City and often writes under the watchful eye of Edgar Allan Poe, in Edgar’s Café near the apartment she shares with her partner, now wife, of thirty-eight years.In the seventies and eighties while working in corporate technology then running her own technology consulting company, Catherine moaned to her artistic friends that she was the only lesbian in New York City who wasn’t creative, the only one without the imagination or the talent to write poetry or novels, play the guitar, act, or sing.Since she found her imagination, writing has been like meditating for Catherine and it is what she most loves to do. But she also reads voraciously, loves to cook, especially Italian, and enjoys hanging out with her wife of thirty-nine years and friends.When she wrote a short story to create the backstory for the love interest in her two unpublished NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mysteries, Catherine had never read any romance and hadn’t considered writing it. To her surprise, “The Fan Club” turned out to be a romance and was included in the Best Lesbian Romance of 2014 edited by Radclyffe.Another surprise was hearing the voices of two characters, Andrea and Darcy, chatting in her head every night, making it difficult to sleep. Reassured by her wife that she wasn’t losing it, Catherine paid attention and those conversations led to her first romance novel, Matters of the Heart.Catherine has also had two mystery short stories published in the Murder New York Style Anthologies, “Justice for All” in Fresh Slices and “Murder Italian Style” in Family Matters.An active member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, Catherine is also a member of Romance Writers of America and Rainbow Romance Writers.

Reviews for Legacy in the Blood

[Carmela Liwag · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is the 4th book in the series and if you haven't read/listened to the other 3 I highly suggest you do or characters and their stories and interactions may feel lost to you.

So this one is more about Parker than Kiara as she gets to be lead on the case. While the case is intriguing, what I found more interested in was Parker and her interactions with everyone. It was great to see Kiara settle down a bit and the hostility between the two lessen significantly. I did miss seeing Gianna and the rest of the family more but again this is Parker's story.

I was a bit confused when it came to her love life as if I recall book 2, or maybe it was 3, correctly she was not identifying as a lesbian/bi. If I recall she told Jessie she wasn't gay but then something at the end of the book completely contradicts it... maybe she just didn't want to admit it which I guess adds to her character more.

Anyway, the case was an interesting on and on its own was fun (I don't know if that's the right word to use) to read and unravel. Looking forward to the next one!