Leo Ormonde Editor. Archivist. Occasional Accomplice.
Reluctant editor and literary custodian of The Family Business
He didn’t mean to uncover a criminal dynasty. He just couldn’t resist the voice.
Leo is not just an editor, he’s a finder, an assembler, an accidental archivist of a criminal world.
Leo’s The Family Business Series
Explore the series. Published books and books in the pipeline.
Diary of a Reluctant Mafia Boss
Memoirs of the Real Gianna Ricci
Marco Ricci Curated Works & Selected Truth
The Red Lunchbox
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About Leo Ormonde
I was a freelance editor with a fondness for strange voices, forgotten manuscripts, and good cannoli. I didn’t set out to become the biographer of a criminal dynasty. But one afternoon, while looking for bin bags, I found a diary.
Luca Moretti’s diary, to be precise. Hidden in a filing cabinet I hadn’t opened in years.
I read it. I published it. I thought that would be the end.
Then Gianna Ricci got in touch. Not a request, more of a warning.
Now I appear to be the reluctant archivist of The Family Business, an international legacy built on silence, systems, and suspiciously good marinara.
I don’t invent their stories. I just bring them to light.
And I sleep with one eye open.
The Family Business Series
A four-part fictional archive of a global criminal family — curated, confessed, and uncovered. Every story can stand alone. Together, they tell the whole truth.
Diary of a Reluctant Mafia Boss
Memoirs of the Real Gianna Ricci
Marco Ricci Curated Works and Selected Truth - COMING SOON
The Red Lunchbox - COMING SOON
Luca’s Lost Page
Free PDF Download: This page was found wedged behind a clay workshop flyer at the Brooklyn Arts Centre. It contains:
- Chair-related stress
- A goat (possibly metaphorical)
- Dario, delivering motivational speeches without permission
Includes coffee stains, mild panic, and a free therapist recommendation.
Filed under: “Emotional Escalation: Early Stage”.
Recovered by Leo Ormonde. Released against better judgement.
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About the Author
Leo Ormonde was a freelance editor, the sort who enjoyed unusual voices, forgotten manuscripts and the occasional handwritten letter. Then he found Luca Moretti’s diary in a filing cabinet and everything changed. One book led to another. Gianna Ricci arrived with a manuscript that was equal parts memoir and warning. Others followed, each encrypted, redacted, or smelling faintly of marinara.
Ormonde doesn’t invent these stories. He ‘finds’ them, (is forced to) assembles them, and brings them to light. His edited works, so far, Diary of a Reluctant Mafia Boss and Memoirs of the Real Gianna Ricci, form the beginnings of a growing archive of uncomfortable silence, dangerous systems, and suspiciously good food.
Leo Ormonde is a pen name.