Slip inside her mind—
You don’t just read it.
You feel it.
“Profound perceptions … A sharp subversion of the femme fatale.” — Kirkus Reviews
A series of standalone psychological suspense novels set in New York and beyond,
paired with music written inside the story.
2001 — The Next Chapter Coming October 11.
PSYCHOSX: The Hunter is Haunted
Book 2 of Charmay: New York Noir
I’m watching you.
Across a paranoid, post-9/11 landscape spanning New York and London, a trauma-haunted investigator operating under an alias is pushed deep into the orbit of a mercurial horror filmmaker—only to have the details of her real life weaponized to trap her inside a brutal, real-time performance.
I'M WATCHING YOU: Inside Book 2
SKINLESS (Book 1) OUT NOW
SKINLESS: The Story of a Female Survivor
A thrilling crime novel. A female survivor. A story that refuses to stay quiet.
A singer-songwriter navigating trauma, abuse, and homelessness in NYC 1999. A brutally raw thriller exploring identity, art, and the shadows we carry. Moves with the tension of crime noir and the raw interior intimacy of memoir— something fiercely human.
“A must read.” — INDIE READER
“A deeply moving, deliciously weighty work of fiction… Those who surrender to the flow will be rewarded.”
— KIRKUS REVIEWS
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Critical Acclaim
“A deeply moving, deliciously weighty work of fiction… Moor’s poetic, stream-of-consciousness prose drops readers directly into the mind of a trauma survivor… Those who surrender to the flow will be rewarded.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Uncomfortable, occasionally overwhelming, and undeniably powerful… Skinless offers something rare: a portrait of survival that doesn’t sanitize the mess.”
— BookLife by Publishers Weekly
“Shelved as a must-read… Moor tells Charmay’s experiences with abuse and betrayal in stark, unsentimental prose…”
— IndieReader
“An eloquent crime novel—street poetry renders the city in lush, sensual language and a heroine’s raw will to live..”
— B. Welton, Foreword Reviews
“A humane, unsparing portrait—wringing hope from the drug-drenched, sex-soaked streets of 1990s New York City.”
— D. Ballantyne, Foreword Reviews (Interview)
“Lyrical and unflinchingly honest. Perfect for readers who love the raw brilliance of The Bell Jar and the restless energy of Kerouac.”
— Goodreads, 5⭐️
A velvet whisper…
“Spiderwebb”
“Let me leave. Breathe again. Believe.”
First music drop from Book 2.
Enter the isolation and surveillance of PSYCHOSX.
The Sound
Nocturnal downtempo.
Produced by
Mark White (Spin Doctors) & Aaron Monroe (Missy Elliott)
Created and performed by
Maggie Moor
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Hailed as “undeniably powerful” (BookLife) and a “must-read” (IndieReader), Maggie Moor writes literary psychological crime that offers a perspective of rare depth—where raw lived experience meets a piercing gift for observation.
Through the fierce lens of a femme fatale, Moor’s stream-of-consciousness prose places you inside the narrator’s mind in real time—a “subversion of the noir trope” that is intimate, human, and “deeply moving” (Kirkus Reviews)—in a unique, “street poetry that vacillates between beauty and despair” (Foreword Reviews).
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