Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 and studied law and criminology. He won four Italian literature prizes for his bestselling debut The Whisperer. Since 1999 he has been working as a TV screenwriter, and he lives in Rome.
Shiveringly intelligent * The Times * Proceeds at breakneck speed . . . offers a series of clever shocks * The Sunday Times * More Steig Larsson than Henning Mankell, more Jo Nesbo than Karl Ove Knausgaard . . . a gallopingly fun read: dark, disturbing -- Alison Flood * Observer *