Fiora Flynn

Fiora Flynn is a fictional character in an eight book mystery series by A.E. Maxwell (husband and wife writing team Evan and Ann Maxwell, who also writes as Elizabeth Lowell.) The books in the series are Just Another Day in Paradise (1985), The Frog and the Scorpion (1986), Gatsby's Vineyard (1987), Just Enough Light to Kill (1988), The Art of Survival (1989), Money Burns (1991), The King of Nothing (1992), and Murder Hurts (1993). Fiora is the ex-wife and on-again, off-again lover of Fiddler, an independently wealthy Southern California resident with a past who occasionally solves crimes. Fiora, an investment banker, invested Fiddler's ill-gotten gains to spectacular effect. She is "fey" or "psychic" and sometimes has precognitive dreams if Fiddler or someone else she loves is in danger. She was named "Fiora" because a hospital nurse mistakenly wrote "Fiora" instead of "Fiona" on her birth certificate. Themes in the series included action and adventure with villains ranging from KGB officers and Colombian drug smugglers to high society artists and corporate executives.