Romy Hausmann was born in East Germany in 1981. At the age of twenty-four she became chief editor at a film production company in Munich. Since the birth of her son, Romy has been working as a freelancer in television. Her thriller debut, Dear Child, became a number one bestseller in Germany, was published in twenty countries and has been adapted into an internationally successful Netflix series. Anatomy of a Killer is her third thriller. Romy lives with her family in a remote house in the woods near Stuttgart.