After discovering that the average person spends thirty-three years of their life asleep, Matthew Blake felt the pull of a story. He began extensive research into sleep-related crimes and into the mys…
After an MA in English, Simon Beckett spent several years as a property repairer before a stint teaching in Spain. Back in the UK, he played percussion in several bands. He has been a freelance journa…
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the trainees…
Pascal Mercier is the pseudonym of Peter Bieri, a Swiss writer and philosopher. Bieri studied philosophy, English studies and Indian studies in both London and Heidelberg.
Born on 30 October 1968 in Vienna, Ursula Poznanski (a.k.a. Ursula P. Archer), after finishing high school, she began studying Japanese studies, journalism, law and theater.
Viveca Sten made her author debut with crime novel Still Waters. It soon became a huge hit with both critics and readers and today the author has sold almost 3 million copies of her books worldwide.
Dorothee Elmiger is a Swiss writer. She presently lives in Switzerland. Elmiger is considered one of the most promising young Swiss writers, especially after winning the second Ingeborg Bachmann Prize…
HANS ROSENFELDT was born in 1964 in Borås. He worked as a sea lion keeper, a driver, a teacher and an actor until 1992 when he began writing for television. He has written screenplays for approximatel…
Søren Sveistrup is an internationally acclaimed scriptwriter of the Danish television phenomenon The Killing which won various international awards and sold in more than a hundred countries. More rece…
Kyra Groh wurde 1990 in Seligenstadt am Main geboren. Nach einem kleinen Umweg über die Uni Gießen, verschlug es sie 2012 nach Frankfurt, wo sie Trambahnen, Apfelwein und Supermärkte, die bis Mitterna…
Romy Hausmann was born in the former GDR in 1981. At the age of twenty-four she became chief editor at a film production company in Munich. Since the birth of her son, Romy has been working as a freel…
Der 1970 geborene Linus Geschke arbeitet als freier Journalist für führende deutsche Magazine und Tageszeitungen, darunter Spiegel Online, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Manager Magazin. Dazu…
Petra Johann, Jahrgang 1971, ist promovierte Mathematikerin. Sie arbeitete mehrere Jahre in der Forschung und in der Softwarebranche, bevor sie ihre wahre Berufung fand: Menschen umbringen - wenn auch…
Lena Kiefer wurde 1984 geboren und war schon als Kind eine begeisterte Leserin und Geschichtenerfinderin. Einen Beruf daraus zu machen, kam ihr jedoch nicht in den Sinn. Nach der Schule verirrte sie s…
Colin Hadler wurde 2001 in Graz geboren. Schon ab dem Alter von zwölf Jahren spielte er in Schauspielhäusern Theater. Sein erster Roman erschien 2019. Hadler schreibt Drehbücher, Gedichte und Romane. …
Tiffany Crum is the author of This Story Might Save Your Life, forthcoming in March 2026 from Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar. A longtime Californian, she now lives in Atlanta with her husband, sons, and…
Nelio Biedermann ist am Zürichsee aufgewachsen. Seine Familie stammt väterlicherseits aus ungarischem Adel, seine Großeltern flohen in den 1950er Jahren in die Schweiz. Biedermann studiert Germanistik…
