Donato Carrisi was born in 1973 in Martina Franca and now lives in Rome. After studying Law, he specialised in Criminology and Behavioural Science. He is a director as well as a screenwriter, for both television and cinema. He writes for the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera and he is the author of several bestselling international novels (all published by Longanesi): The Whisperer, The Lost Girls of Rome, The Woman with the Paper Flowers, The Vanished Ones, The Hunter of the Dark, The Master of the Shadows, The Man in the Labyrinth and The Girl in the Fog (which was made into a film of the same name and won the David di Donatello award for Best New Director).