Alessia Gazzola (born 9 April 1982, Messina, Sicily, Italy) is an Italian novelist. Gazzola is a medical examiner and she published her first novel, L'allieva, in 2011. Her novels mix crime fiction and chick lit, the central character being Alice Allevi.Her 2018 novel Il ladro gentiluomo won the 2019 Premio Bancarella. Source: Wikipedia (en)