Tadej Golob (1967) was born in Maribor and grew up in nearby Lenart. He went to secondary school in Maribor and played football for FC Maribor, then went to study journalism in Ljubljana, where he became involved in alpine climbing to fill the gap in his life that appeared when he stopped playing football. Both journalism and climbing led him to travelling all over the world – as a journalist he covered motorcycling and interviewed world champions on race courses, as a mountaineer he climbed walls from Meteora in Greece to the Himalaya. He was a member of the expedition that in 2000 assisted Davo Karničar in his first-ever descent on skis from the highest mountain in the world. He wrote his first book about this expedition, then began writing biographies of people he had previously interviewed for the Slovene edition of Playboy – for example the actress Milena Zupančič, Kot bi Luna padla na zemljo (As if the Moon Fell to Earth) (Beletrina, 2018). His literary debut, the novel Svinjske nogice (Pig's Feet) (Litera, 2009), won him the Kresnik Award for best novel of the year in Slovenia. In 2016 he began writing his bestselling crime novel series, starting with Jezero (The Lake) (Goga, 2016), and Leninov Park (Lenin Park) (Goga, 2018), with the sixth book in the series just published. So far, the first three books have also been adapted for TV.