Michael Katz Krefeld

Michael Katz Krefeld (1966) was born in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. He’s the grandchild of crime novelist Hermann Krefeld (The Leopard’s Claw and Death Plays Solitaire).

Michael started his career directing a series of short films, before he moved on writing scripts for several tv drama-series including the Emmy awarded "Nikolaj & Juliet"

Michael debuted as a novelist with Before the storm (Før Stormen) which won the Danish Crime Academy’s first novel-award in 2007.

Since 2013, Michael has been writing on the bestselling series about the private detective Raven and his dog Murphy. The series has won numerous awards including Crime Book of the year, Mofibo award and has been published in 20 countries with more than one million copies sold alone in Denmark.

At the same time, Michael is also writing a trilogy about crime commissioner Cecilie Mars, in which Darkness Calls and Beast of the nights so far has taken the critics and readers by storm. Last volume Executioners of the Dawn is set to be released in 2023.

In his sparetime Michael drives historical racecars and participates in races all over Europe.