Raw. Intimate. Fiercely human.
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.
PSYCHOSX: The Hunter is Haunted
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A woman trying to survive the aftermath of trauma and addiction becomes a hunter—private investigator, performer, artistic collaborator—only to discover she is hunting the ghosts inside herself.
I’m watching you.
Stranded in London in the wake of 9/11, Charmay, a New York City singer, actress, and private investigator, becomes dangerously entangled with a charismatic horror filmmaker she secretly investigates over suspected ties to Osama bin Laden—only she becomes the subject of his next film, where he weaponizes her real-life trauma in a psychological game.
The blur between performance and reality becomes a war for the soul.
Inside Book 2
SKINLESS: The Story of a Female Survivor
“Moor drops you inside the mind of a trauma survivor… a profound subversion of the traditional femme fatale trope for a woman of raw agency and authority” that is intimate, human, and “deeply moving” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Those who surrender to the flow will be rewarded.” — Kirkus Reviews
SKINLESS: The Story of a Female Survivor
A thrilling crime novel. A female survivor. A story that refuses to stay quiet.
Skinless combines the tension of crime noir with the raw interior intimacy of literary fiction—something fiercely human.
1999. NYC: After teenage abuse and homelessness, singer Charmay hides trauma behind a glamorous alter ego to survive the margins of street life.
At the turn of the millennium in New York City, sharp-witted, resourceful singer-songwriter Charmay is fighting to find her voice in the entertainment industry while living with the aftermath of teenage sexual abuse and homelessness.
Pulled into the city’s drug, crime, and sex world, she moves between exploitation, addiction, and fleeting refuge, seeking solace in Cindy—a persona shaped by survival and manipulation.
Caught in a web of money, ambition, and hunger for intimacy, Charmay clings to an increasingly violent marriage with a weed kingpin while navigating a Wall Street financier obsessed with Cindy and a music producer determined to cut her open to reach her honest voice.
Hustles on fire, Charmay blurs into Cindy. Beats. Bullets. Bedsheets. When her identities collide in a fever of flashbacks and betrayals, she is hurled into her most horrific reckoning yet.
“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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Charmay: New York Noir — The Evolution
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The Voice of Charmay: New York Noir
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)—“street poetry that vacillates between beauty and despair” (Foreword Reviews).
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