Alessia Gazzola

Alessia Gazzola (born 9 April 1982, Messina, Sicily, Italy) is an Italian novelist. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Messina and later specialized in Forensic Medicine in 2011. She worked as a forensic physician until 2017, when she decided to devote herself entirely to writing. Gazzola is a medical examiner and she published her first novel, L'allieva, in 2011. Her novels mix crime fiction and chick lit, the central character being Alice Allevi. Her 2018 novel Il ladro gentiluomo won the 2019 Premio Bancarella.