Martina Kempff

Martina Kempff first worked as an editor at the Berliner Morgenpost and as a reporter for Die Welt and Bunte before turning to book writing. She also worked as a translator. Kempff grew up in San Francisco, Berlin, and Helsinki and lived, among other places, in Greece and Amsterdam, where she spent twelve years. An eight-year period in the Eifel inspired her crime novels featuring amateur restaurateur Katja Klein and Belgian police inspector Marcel Langer. Her historical novels include Die Königsmacherin, Die Beutefrau, and Die Welfenkaiserin.