Ilaria Tuti

With a degree in economics and business, a passion for painting and experience as an illustrator, Ilaria Tuti is one of the freshest voices in contemporary Italian fiction.

Part of the credit is perhaps due to the original view point from which she tells her stories, Gemona del Friuli, the town where she has always lived on the far north-eastern spur of Italy, just a few kilometres from the borders with Austria and Slovenia.

Her most famous character is police commissioner/profiler Teresa Battaglia, the main character in five of her novels all published by Longanesi –Fiori sopra l'inferno (Flowers over the Inferno, 2018), Ninfa dormiente (Painted in Blood (UK), The Sleeping Nymph (USA), 2019), Luce della notte (Night Glow, 2021), Figlia della cenere (The Daughter of Ashes, 2021) and Madre d'ossa (2023) – who also recently arrived on TV in the fiction starring Elena Sofia Ricci.

Her pathway through the shadows of the thriller genre has been accompanied in recent years by that of the historical novel. Tuti has written two books, also published by Longanesi, set during World War I and animated by strong female characters, the "Carnic bearers" of Fiore di roccia (Flower of the Rocks) in 2020 and the surgical women of Come vento cucito alla terra (Like Wind Sewn to the Soil) in 2022.

In Germany Penguin Verlag has published the first two volumes of Teresa Battaglia's saga under the titles Eiskalte Hölle (2019) and Bitterkalter Tod (2023).