Marco Conelli is an active veteran Detective in the NYPD. His love of the science of deduction and famous fictional detectives of our folklore inspired him to create Matthew Livingston and write his first young adult novel, "Matthew Livingston & the Prison of Souls". Marco's teenage detective is unlike any before, as his character directly inherits his author's crime solving abilities and dilligent pursuit of justice. Marco Conelli resides in New York, where he still serves the NYPD and continues to write more Matthew Livingston books. "