Andrea Carlo Cappi, born in Milan, 1964, has been living between Italy and Spain since 1973. Complete bibliography in italian here.
As a writer in Italy, he's the author of nearly one hundred titles (novels, short story collections and non-fiction), plus dozens of still uncollected short stories. His works of fiction include:
-the interconnected thriller/spy/noir series Nightshade and Medina, Agente Nightshade and Sickrose, Toni Black and Dark Duet, all part of the same universe, named "Kverse", currently 32 books and 12 ebooks; most of them have been originally published by Mondadori (some under the pen name François Torrent).
The older Kverse books are currently being made available on Amazon by Oakmond Publishing (since 2019, in Italian) and Excalibur Milano (since 2026, in Spanish).
The Kverse was also shared with Stefano Di Marino, whose character "Il Professionista" teamed up with Nightshade and Medina in both writers' books; in 2025 Cappi acquired the rights of all the works and characters by the late Di Marino.
-the erotic horror/urban-fantasy vampire series Danse Macabre, currently consisting in two novels and a couple of short stories.
-eleven original sci-fi/fantasy/thriller tie-in novels - one of them winning in 2018 the Premio Italia for best Italian fantasy novel - based on the comics series Martin Mystère (created in 1982 by the late Alfredo Castelli) for which Cappi also co-wrote four comics episodes in the late 90's
-original caper tie-in novels and film novelizations, currently seven books and one shorter story, based on the comics series Diabolik (created in 1962 by the late Angela & Luciana Giussani), to which he regularly contributes with non-fiction material in special issues.
-the sexy/sci-fi/noir LUV and the sexy/noir short story collection Neri amori, both co-authored with Ermione.
-the historical (unconnected) mystery novels Il Visconte/La spia del Risorgimento set in 19th century Italy (written with Paolo Brera) and Il ponte sospeso, set in Rome between 1864 and 1964.
-in 2003 he co-wrote the radio fiction series Mata Hari for RAI Radio, the Italian national redio newtwork.
-in 2025 he co-edited with Mario Gazzola and Roberta Guardascione, and co-wrote in a team of 10 authors, the anthology/novel "Fantasmi di oggi e leggende nere dell'età moderna", tie-in to Dario Argento's 1975 movie "Profondo rosso" (Deep Red), published by Profondo Rosso Store, owned by directors Luigi Cozzi and Dario Argento.
Cappi's non-fiction works include:
-books (some co-authored with Edward C. Dell'Orto, one with Dell'Orto and Marco Donna) on James Bond in literature and films
-books and handbooks on creative writing and writing thrillers
-biographies of Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe (the latter with particular attention to the circustances of her death)
-a history of espionage between WW1 and 2009, through several real life stories and characters
-a collection of Italian true crime stories spanning for half a century since the 1960's.
Between 1998 and 2008 he was chief editor of Italian mystery magazines "G-La Rivista del Giallo" (1998-1999) and "M-Rivista del Mistero" (2000-2008); since 2025 he has recreated the latter as the collection of anthologies "M-Rivista del Mistero presenta", which he personally edits.
Since 2023, Cappi has been editing the Italian-made ebook spy fiction series Spy Game-Storie della Guerra Fredda, created in 2019 by the late Stefano Di Marino. He's also recently become an editor for German-based Italian-language Oakmond Publishing.
Editor of several anthologies through the years, in 1995 he edited the very first all-Italian anthology of short stories published by Italy's leading mystery book collection "Il Giallo Mondadori" (created in 1929), which was instrumental in convincing readers that a whole new generation of mystery writers existed in Italy.
He's also known as a translator into Italian from Spanish (works by Pedro Casals, Andreu Martín, Juan Madrid, Matilde Asensi, Paco Ignacio Taibo II and many others) and English (works by Francis Marion Crawford, Dashiell Hammett, Ian Fleming, Donald E. Westlake, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Raymond Benson, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Jeffery Deaver and many, many others). He's been associated for thirty years to several Italian publications of James Bond novels and non-fiction books about Ian Fleming's character.
Through the years he hosted various radio and tv shows, and hundreds of literary events; in october 2003 he devised, along with the staff of FNAC Italia, the still unmatched biggest mystery writers event in Italy, which lasted one whole month in five different cities (Milan, Turin, Verona, Genoa and Naples), personally hosting many of the meetings.
He's a member of IAMTW, World SF Italia, Associazione Culturale Andrea G. Pinketts (devoted to the works of the late eponymous Italian writer).
Since 2020 he presides over the jury of the Torre Crawford literary award, inspired by Italian-born American writer Francis Marion Crawford. He's also in the jury of the Stefano Di Marino-Segretissimo award and the Michele Serio award.
Find him on
A.C.Cappi en español (official page in Spanish)
Europulp (blog in English)
A.C.Cappi en espanol (blog in Spanish)
Il Rifugio dei Peccatori (blog in Italian)
Borderfiction Zone (blog in Italian)
Kverse - Il mondo thriller di Andrea Carlo Cappi (blog in Italian)
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| A. C. Cappi - Photo by Alberto Aliverti |
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