Gianluca Arrighi

Gianluca Arrighi
Born (1972-10-03) October 3, 1972
Rome, Italy
Occupation Writer, criminal lawyer
Nationality Italy
Alma mater Sapienza University of Rome
Genre Legal thriller
Crime fiction
Website
www.gianlucaarrighi.it

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;[1] the novel was adopted as a textbook in the schools of the Province of Rome[2] 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.[3] Vincolo di sangue remained for six months in the ranking of best-selling books, reaching sixth place.[4]

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. [5]

In March of 2014 her third novel, L'inganno della memoria,[6] in which Arrighi gives life to the literary character of Elia Preziosi, enigmatic and aloof public prosecutor in Rome.[7]

L'inganno della memoria is the best-selling Italian legal thriller of 2014.[8]

After one year from the publication of L'inganno della memoria, exactly in March of 2015, Arrighi suffers persecution and intimidation by a stalker[9] 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.[10]

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

References

  1. ↑ Redazione (8 July 2009). ""Crimina romana" In un libro i mille volti della cronaca nera". Il Giornale.
  2. ↑ Patricia Tagliaferri (4 May 2009). "Lezioni di legalità nelle scuole contro la criminalità minorile". Il Giornale. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Laura Martellini (5 April 2012). "Nella mente di un' assassina". Corriere della Sera. p. 18.
  4. ↑ Patrizio J. Macci (7 September 2012). "Il best seller è alla romana. Il segreto? Rete e social net". Affari Italiani. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Mediaset. "Il calamaio rosso sangue".
  6. ↑ Adnkronos. "Libri: "L'inganno della memoria" nella Roma di Gianluca Arrighi".
  7. ↑ Il Tempo. "Quando la grande bellezza si macchia di sangue".
  8. ↑ Attualità. "Libri: "L'inganno della memoria" è il legal thriller italiano più venduto". CheDonna.
  9. ↑ Giulio De Santis (8 June 2015). "Scrittore fallito diventa stalker del giallista e avvocato Arrighi". Corriere della Sera.
  10. ↑ Cronaca (22 June 2015). "Condannato lo stalker dello scrittore Arrighi". Affari Italiani. Retrieved 22 June 2015.


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