Ilaria Tuti

Ilaria Tuti is an Italian crime fiction author from Friuli, northeastern Italy. She is best known for her Teresa Battaglia series, featuring a brilliant but aging criminal profiler investigating cold cases and serial killers in the distinctive landscape of the Italian Alps. Her debut novel Flowers Over the Inferno introduced Teresa Battaglia to international audiences and became a bestseller in Italy. The series has been translated into numerous languages and adapted for Italian television. Tuti brings a deep sense of place and psychological complexity to her fiction, drawing on the folklore and history of her home region.