Leonardo Gori was born on the 1st January 1957. In 2000 he published his first novel starring Bruno Arcieri, “Nero di maggio” (The Blackness of May)(Hobby & Work), which is set in Florence in 1938 when Hitler and Mussolini visited the city. The other novels in the series are “Il passaggio” (The Passage) (Hobby & Work, 2002), “La finale” (The Final) (Hobby & Work, 2003), “Lo specchio nero” (the Black Mirror), “Il fiore d’oro” (The Golden Flower) (with Franco Cardini, Hobby & Work, 2004 and 2006), “L’angelo del fango” (The Angel of the Mud) (Rizzoli, 2005 winner of the Scerbanenco Award 2005) and “Musica Nera” (Black Music) (Hobby & Work, 2008, winner of the Fedeli Award and Azzeccagarbugli Award).
In some of his Bruno Arcieri novels there is a cross-over with Marco Vichi’s superintendent Franco Bordelli, particularly in “Fantasmi del passato” (Ghosts of the Past) (Guanda, 2014).
He has published the historic thrillers “I delitti del mondo nuovo” (Crimes of the New World)(Hobby & Work, 2002), “Le ossa di Dio” (God’s Bones) (Rizzoli, 2006, translated into various languages), “La città del sole nero” (The City of the Black Sun) (Rizzoli, 2007), “La città d’Oro” (The Golden City)(Giunti, 2013). He has co-authored “Il lungo inganno” (The Long Deception) (Hobby & Work, 2008) with Divier Nelli and “Bloody Mary” (Edizioni Ambiente, 2008 and Einaudi, 2010) with Marco Vichi. His work has been included in numerous short story anthologies (Hobby & Work, Piemme, Guanda, Garzanti).
Leonardo Gori is involved in narrative graphics and other related art forms, namely illustration, cinema and animation. He has published, with Fabio Gadducci and Sergio Lama, the essay “Eccetto Topolino” (Except Mice) about comic strips during fascism (NPE, 2011), among others.