Veit Etzold

Veit Etzold is a German author who became famous for his first fictional bestseller Final Cut in 2012 and following books such as Der Totenzeichner in 2015 or Dark Web in 2017. He is married to Saskia Etzold, a well-known forensic doctor at the Berliner Charité.Etzold is also a university professor for marketing and corporate storytelling and in this role a commentator on developments in business and politics. He wrote several non-fictional books about strategy and storytelling such as Der weiße Hai im Weltraum in 2013 and Strategie: Planen–Erklären–Umsetzen in 2018. As a guest author for Germany's largest tabloid Bild, he formulated seven golden strategy rules when "Strategie" was published.His fictional books are thrillers and the main protagonist is the fictional Berlin investigator Clara Vidalis, who is a chief inspector in the pathopsychology department at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office.