Gianluca Arrighi

Gianluca Arrighi (born 3 October 1972) is an Italian writer.

Born in Rome, Arrighi graduated in criminal law, then, after some technical publications, he made his debut in fiction with Crimina romana in 2009; the novel was adopted as a textbook in the schools of the Province of Rome and President Nicola Zingaretti, to battle against the rampant phenomenon of juvenile delinquency, organized several lectures in universities on justice in which Arrighi, from time to time, he met about two hundred students to answer their questions about crimes and crime.

Between 2010 and 2011, Arrighi wrote for several Italian magazines a series of noir short stories.

In February 2012 Arrighi released his second novel, Vincolo di sangue, based on the court case of Rosalia Quartararo, a case of filicide occurred in the summer of 1993. Vincolo di sangue remained for six months in the ranking of best-selling books, reaching sixth place.

In 2012 the Italian network Mediaset, the largest commercial broadcaster in the country, has evaluated the lawyer Gianluca Arrighi as one of the eight best Italian crime writers.

In March 2014 his third novel, L'inganno della memoria, in which Arrighi gives life to the literary character of Elia Preziosi, enigmatic and aloof public prosecutor in Rome.

L'inganno della memoria is the best-selling Italian legal thriller of 2014 and will become a movie.

After one year from the publication of L'inganno della memoria, exactly in March 2015, Arrighi suffers persecution and intimidation by a stalker that will be later identified by the police and sentenced by a court in Rome. The man, an aspiring writer, confessed to investigators that he had persecuted Arrighi because he was envious of his success.

In April 2017 he released Il confine dell'ombra, the second novel starring Elia Preziosi.

The stories and novels of Arrighi are almost always set in Rome, and the author is considered the Italian master of the crime fiction.