Protagonists
Marco Malvaldi
Marco Malvaldi, a chemist and author, made his literary debut in 2007 with the mystery novel La briscola in cinque, the first in the BarLume series (all published by Sellerio), which inspired the television adaptation I delitti del BarLume starting in 2013. With Cortina, he has published L’architetto dell’invisibile ovvero come pensa un chimico (2017), La direzione del pensiero (2020), and Se fossi stato al vostro posto (forthcoming in late August 2025).














