Dolores Redondo was born in Donostia-San Sebastian in 1969, where she studied Law and Gastronomy. was published in Spain in 2013, with rights sold in thirty languages. It was chosen as 'Best Crime Novel of the Year' by the major Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia and over 600,000 readers turned the series into one of Spain's biggest literary successes in recent years. Dolores Redondo currently lives and writes in the Ribera Navarra area of Spain.