Marco Malvaldi was born in Pisa in 1974. A former teacher at the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Pisa, he established himself in the world of Italian fiction thanks to the series BarLume di Pineta, dedicated to the investigations of the local barman Massimo and the group of elderly gentlemen go to his bar. After La briscola in cinque (2007), Il gioco delle tre carte (2008) and Il re dei giochi (2010), he published Odore di chiuso (2011), a novel set in the late 19th century with the writer and gastronome Pellegrino Artusi serving as protagonist. Among his works there are also Il telefono senza fili and La battaglia navale, another book of the BarLume series.

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