Alessandra Ranelli

Alessandra Ranelli is an American author living abroad in Vienna, Austria. Her work focuses on life’s great passions: love, loss, and lust. She’s been known to kiss and tell.

Alessandra’s crime writing is influenced by her taste for old Hollywood glamour and golden age crime. It’s a cocktail made from a generous pour of bourbon, an ounce of film noir, and a dash of bawdy humour — served in a rocks glass with red lipstick staining the rim.

Her autobiographical work is marked by its raw, often brutal, honesty. As a professional storyteller she is known for making audiences laugh and cry in equal measure.

Alessandra recently completed her first novel, a murder mystery set at a notorious Viennese love hotel. Her extensive book research included working the front desk at a traditional hotel, as well as becoming the Writer in Residence of the Hotel Orient, where the novel is set. She’s seen every room, even the hidden ones.