Frédéric Andrei began his career as an actor and, while continuing to perform in theater and cinema, moved on to directing feature films for cinema and documentaries for television. Also a novelist, he published his first novel, Riches à en mourir, in 2014 with Albin Michel, which was shortlisted for the Quais du Polar/20 Minutes prize. He followed this with Bad Land in 2016 and L’Histoire de la reine des putes in 2020, both with the same publisher.
