Laia Vilaseca

Laia Vilaseca (Barcelona, 1981), a passionate fan of mystery, true crime and noir fiction, is a writer and journalist.

In 2021, her novel La noia del vestit blau (The Girl in the Blue Dress) was published by Rosa dels Vents after becoming a best-seller during the three years it was self-published on Amazon. This brought her to an even wider readership and established her as the breakout Catalan crime author of the year.

With Quan la neu es fon (When the Thaw Arrives), she captivated readers with a fast-paced, gripping thriller in which nature and mystery once again take centre stage, and in which her passion for true crime and suspense is more evident than ever. The novel won Best Novel of 2022 at the Lloret Negre festival.

L’Illa del Silenci (The Island of Silence) is her fourth novel, a piece of rural noir that shows that no matter how much time passes, there are deaths that cannot be overcome until justice is served. L’udol de l’aigua (The Howl of the Water) is her fifth novel.