Alessia Gazzola (Messina, 1982), a classical high school graduate with a degree in Medicine and Surgery, specializes in Forensic Medicine. She loves traveling and reading (she considers it a type of travel) and cooking. She lives in Verona with her husband and two small girls.
The highly successful series dedicated to the love and professional adventures of Alice Allevi includes The Pupil (2011), A Secret Is Not Forever (2012), Suspended Heart Syndrome (2012), The Bones of the Princess (2014), A Long Cruel Summer (2015), A Little Madness in Spring (2016), Arabesque (2017) and The Gentleman Thief (2018), all published by Longanesi.
His books are translated in Germany, France, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Serbia and Japan. From the first three novels Endemol and RAI1 made a TV drama starring Alessandra Mastronardi as Alice Allevi.
He also published Non è la fine del mondo (Feltrinelli, 2016), Lena e la tempesta (Garzanti, 2019), Questione di Costanza (Longanesi, 2019), Costanza e buoni propositi (Longanesi, 2020) and Un tè a Chaverton House (Garzanti, 2021), La ragazza del collegio (Longanesi, 2021), and La Costanza è un eccezione (Longanesi, 2022).
His latest novel is A Little Formality (Longanesi, 2023).
Rachele knows what is fashionable and what is not, and she has always been a great expert on current trends to the point that she has made it her job: in the most fun-filled Milan, between cocktails with friends at the last open club and a private event, she writes about lifestyle
From the creator of The Pupil a sweeping new adventure for Constance Macallé and a mystery to solve dating back to late 17th-century Venice.
An old English mansion where anything can happen.
My name is Angelica and this is the list of things I had imagined for myself: a faithful boyfriend, a nice little terrace, parents without high expectations. Too bad none came true.
Anything she would have thought, but not to be a paleopathologist after graduating from medical school. Not to live in Verona, so far from Messina, his home. Not to have a small dependent fighter, the funny Flora. Not to track down the father of the said fighter after several years, to find him…
Verona is not my city. And paleopathology is not my business.
Yet, here I am. How could this happen, to me of all people?
My name is Costanza Macallè and on the plane that is taking me from Sicily to the city in Veneto where my sister, Antonietta, already lives, I am not traveling alone.
It is said that each of us, in the course of our lives, accumulates an average of thirteen secrets. Of these, five are truly unmentionable.
Welcome to the great Sanctuary of Humiliations. That is, the institute of forensic medicine where Alice Allevi does everything to ruin her career as a specialist. If it is true that unrequited love is the most heartbreaking, Alice’s love for forensic medicine beats them…
Everything has changed for Alice Allevi: it is a new world that awaits her outside the Institute of Forensic Medicine where she spent complicated but, in their own way, happy years. In fact, Alice is no longer a resident, but a full-fledged Forensic Medicine Specialist. And the bright (maybe) and…
Alice Allevi is a young forensic medicine resident. She still has a lot to learn and knows that she is a bit absent-minded, often careless. But of one thing she is sure: she loves her work. Although the institution in which he performs it is a veritable sanctuary of humiliation. And although his…
