Markus Innocenti

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Markus Innocenti is a filmmaker and author, known for music videos with Bob Dylan, Eurythmics, Charlie Watts, and Aretha Franklin. His novels include ‘The Untold Crimes of Jack the Ripper' a four-part fictional recreation of the mystery surrounding the 1888 Whitechapel murders. ‘Untold Crimes’ was his first venture into historical fiction. He writes contemporary crime thrillers, notably a series featuring Irish American anti-hero, Findo Gask (‘I Walked A Crooked Mile’, ‘I Lay Awake In A Darkened Room’). His career in filmmaking led him to write ‘The Filmmaker’s Art’, a series of non-fiction titles, three of which have been published to date (‘Decoding The Script’, ‘Selecting For Success’, ‘Shooting The List’). He is co-author with Jaron Summers (‘The Failed Life of a Mormon Missionary’, ‘Safety Catch’) of ‘Churchill’s Gold’, a time-traveling YA adventure with a WW2 background. After three decades in the United States, he now lives in France, at work on a new novel.