Marco Malvaldi was born in Pisa in 1974. After obtaining a degree in Chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and studies at the Conservatory, he focused on becoming an opera singer. He soon returned to scientific research as a chemist, publishing dozens of works on physical chemistry, with sporadic deviations into arguments such as the thermodynamic statistics of football. In the meantime, he began to write detective stories and has now published over ten novels that have enjoyed extraordinary success: Game for Five (2007); Three-Card Monte (2008); Il re dei giochi (2010); The Art of Killing Well (2011); La carta più alta e Milioni di milioni (2012); Argento vivo (2013); Il telefono senza fili (2014); Buchi nella sabbia (2015); La battaglia navale (2016); and Negli occhi di chi guarda (2017), all for the publisher Sellerio. He has also published the essay L’architetto dell’invisibile ovvero come pensa un chimico (Raffaello Cortina, 2017).