Marco De Franchi (Rome, 1962) acknowledges that he has a noir side that has always dwelled in him. Since childhood, he dreamed of being a writer as much as he wanted to be an investigator. He has, in fact, a background as chief police commissioner, a period during which he worked at the Servizio Centrale Operativo (SCO), the Italian investigative bureau closest to the FBI.
His experiences in the field were fundamental to the writing of the thriller La condanna dei viventi, published by Longanesi in 2022, followed by Il maestro dei sogni (2024) and Il silenzio delle rondini (2025) for the same publisher.
He lives between Pisa and Livorno with his wife Debora and two children.
