Andreas Franz was born on 12.01.1954 in Quedlinburg and died on 13 March 2011. The family moved from Quedlinburg to Helmbrechts in Upper Franconia at the end of 1955. After his parents separated in 1967, Andreas Franz moved with his mother to London. Here he attended high school for 3 years, and then a language school. At the age of seventeen he made his degree in business English and French.

In subsequent years, Andreas Franz worked as a drummer in various bands, as a truck driver and in an advertising agency and then made ??a business education. Since the early 80’s, he created graphological reports and finally opened his own translation agency in 1990.

Since 1974, Andreas Franz was married to his wife, Inge. The couple had five children, including 2 children from his wife’s first marriage. Andrew and Inge Franz lived with their youngest child in Hattersheim near Frankfurt.

Andreas Franz wrote his first novel, The Finger of God, in 1986. Ten years later, in 1996, his first novel about the Commissioner of the Frankfurt homicide, Julia Durant, Young, Blonde, Dead was published. The author choose a female heroine for the simple reason that this genre consisted almost exclusively of male protagonists. He lmost always based his novels on real events shared by police officers through stories.

Andreas Franz had also written another series about Commissioner Peter Brandt of the Homicide Department Offenbach and a third series about the commissioners Soren Henning and Lisa Santos from Homicide Kiel apart from the stories about Commissioner Julia Durant in Frankfurt. In the course of the series his protagonists are developed further, which allows the characters to appear more realistic.

As Andreas Franz, knew Frankfurt and Offenbach fairly well, he had settled 2 of his 3 series there. In an interview he stated that he knew the areas of Kiel and Flensburg very well because his wife Inge comes from Schleswig, which is why he had chosen Kiel as a scene for Commissioner Soren Henning and his colleague Lisa Santos.

Julia-Durant-Reihe, Mordkommission Frankfurt

Julia Durant Series

Young, Blonde, Dead (1996)

The Eighth Victim (1999)

Lethal Dose (2000)

The Hunter (2001)

The Syndicate of the Spider (2002)

Infamous (2003)

The Stockade (2004)

Devilish Promise (2005)

Deadly Laugh (October 2006)

The Death Cross (Julia Durant’s first investigation with Peter Brandt) (2007)

Murderous Days (2009)

Peter Brandt Series

Death of a Teacher (Paperback 2004), also published as The Devil's Pact (Paperback 2004)

Murder Game (2005)

Cry of the Nightingale (2006)

The Death Cross (Peter Brandt investigates for the first time with Julia Durant) (2007)

Homicide Division Kiel with Soren Hennig and Lisa Santos

Invisible Traces (2006)

Play the Devil (2008)

Icy Close (2010)

Many of the books by Andreas Franz are also available as audiobooks. The books about Inspector Durant are read by Julia Fischer and Uta Kromer. Stephen Benson read the novels about investigator duo Soren Hennig and Lisa Santos. The first three books about Peter Brandt were read by Tommi Piper. The Death Cross was read by John Steck.