Colleen Mooney

Biography

Colleen Mooney is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author in a soon to be 9 Book series. Book 9, CROISSANTS, CRIMES & CANINES will be released December 1, 2020.

Colleen was born and lived much of her life in New Orleans before her AT&T job moved her to multiple cities but she always bounced back to New Orleans. She writes a cozy mystery series set in New Orleans called The New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles.

In January 2017 Colleen organized a Sisters in Crime chapter in New Orleans, was elected President and has a planned a Mystery Writers’ Conference for November 2019.

Colleen’s other great loves, besides writing, is a breed rescue group, Schnauzer Rescue of Louisiana that she has been the Director of for 19 years and has placed over 375 abandoned or surrendered Schnauzers.

Colleen enjoys Scuba diving and Underwater photography, racing sailboats, driving a motorcycle, and loves snow skiing. Her interests have taken her to places all over the world. She says, “My mother said I was born with a suitcase in my hand!”

In New Orleans, she’s been active in many Mardi Gras Krewes, Super Krewes, and organizations and has belonged to the Krewe of Cork, Orpheus, Iris, Tucks, Joan of Arc and the Halloween Krewe of Boo. Colleen says she has never met a parade she didn’t like.