Intimate. Poetic. Honest.

Songs written into the world of Charmay: NY Noir

“Deep, sensuous singing… cinematic lyrics.”
— David Sanborn

AUTHOR • PSYCHOANALYST • ARTIST 

“Moor’s poetic, stream-of-consciousness prose drops readers directly into the mind of a trauma survivor. On the surface, Charmay might come across as a typical femme fatale… but she’s a character with agency and authority. Those who surrender to the flow will be rewarded.” — Kirkus Reviews

Maggie Moor is a multi-faceted artist, a Gradiva-nominated clinician, a national-level figure athlete, a wellness expert, a vitality visionary in mind-body healing for enlightenment, and ultimately a liver and grower. Her diverse background—working in trauma and addiction with female inmates at Rikers Island, teaching integration and yoga to couples mending relationships, working private investigations on the streets of New York City, and performing on stage as a singer-songwriter with legendary jazz and rock royalty—all converge to form her psychological suspense series, Charmay: New York Noir.

 By threading together trauma, addiction, glamour, urban grit and heat, Moor blends a raw reality with perceptive observations that critics have hailed as a “sharp subversion of the femme fatale” (Kirkus Reviews), “undeniably powerful” (BookLife) and a “must-read” (IndieReader). Celebrated for a unique “street poetry that vacillates between beauty and despair” (Foreword Reviews), she writes visceral portraits of trauma and survival that bend the crime thriller genre into something intimate, unsettling, and “fiercely human.” Written from a raw, first-person perspective that places you deep inside the mind like a memoir, this is a world where the NYC underground meets the sharp precision of a psychoanalyst and the jazz-pulse of a siren.