Pelonero's debut book, "Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences", was published in 2014. The book is a detailed nonfiction account of the infamous 1964 murder of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens, New York. The book became a best seller, twice making the New York Times Best Sellers List.