Alex Beer studied archaeology and lives in Vienna. Her series of crime novels about the investigator August Emmerich are award-winning - in addition to numerous shortlist nominations (including for the Friedrich Glauser Prize, Viktor Crime Award, Crime Cologne Award), she has twice received the Leo Perutz Prize for Crime Literature and was awarded the Austrian Crime Novel Prize, as well as the Crime Novel Audience Award of the German Book Trade. Felix Blom - Der Häftling aus Moabit is the prelude to a new crime series about crook and master detective Felix Blom in 1870s Berlin.
