About D. M. Pirrone

D.M. Pirrone is the nom de plume of Diane Piron-Gelman, who works as a freelance editor and audiobook narrator when she isn't writing books. Her latest novel is FOR YOU WERE STRANGERS (Allium Press, December 2015), Book 2 in the Hanley & Rivka mystery series set just after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. When a former Civil War soldier is found slain in his bed with his own bayonet, the murder exposes secrets best left buried--among them a black man passing for white, an 1864 conspiracy to take over Chicago that still threatens powerful men, and a surviving Confederate guerrilla fighter unable to deal with a world turned upside down, with tragic consequences. Hanley and Rivka race against time to solve the killing, before the turbulent events of the recent past claim more victims.

Book 1 in the series, SHALL WE NOT REVENGE (Allium Press, 2014), takes place during the harsh winter of 1872, when rookie Irish detective Francis (Frank) Hanley solves the brutal murder of a rabbi with an unexpected assist from the dead man's daughter, Rivka, but finds a much darker case than he bargained for that ultimately forces a reckoning with an enemy from his own checkered past.

Pirrone's debut mystery novel, NO LESS IN BLOOD, was published by Five Star/Cengage in 2011. A Chicago native, history buff and avid reader of just about anything, Ms. Piron-Gelman is a longtime member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. She lives on the Northwest Side with her husband Stephen and two sons, David and Isaac.