Grace Brophy

About the Author

Born in Bergenfield, New Jersey to Irish parents, Grace graduated from Hunter College and later attended the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In September 2001, she and her late huband Miguel Peraza, a figurative painter, travelled to Italy with their two cats, Rachel and LoMein for work. Grace and Miguel lived in Venice and later in Umbria, in Assisi, for five years, returning to the United States for medical reasons in 2006. Miguel, originally from Uruguay, died in February 2009.

Grace was a systems engineer for twenty years for various telecommunication companies, including Bell Labs, AT&T, and Verizon. Before she began work as a systems engineer, she taught writing at the City University of New York, at Queens and Hunter colleges.

The Last Enemy, now Vendetta in a Graveyard, was published by Soho Crime in May 2007. Her second novel in the series, A Deadly Paradise, now Vendetta in Paradise, was published by Soho in May 2008. Both are republished here along with two new novels in the same series: Vendetta in the Vatican, 3rd, and Vendetta in a Raincoat, 4th. The fifth in the series, Vendetta in a Vineyard is now being fine-tuned by Grace and should be available in summer 2025.