Marco Vichi was born in Florence in 1957.
He begins its career in March 1999 with the novel L’inquilino (Guanda). Later he publishes Donne donne (2000), Il commissario Bordelli (2002), Una brutta faccenda. Un’indagine del commissario Bordelli (2003), Il nuovo venuto. Una nuova indagine del commissario Bordelli (2004), Perché dollari? (2005), Il Brigante (2006), all for the same publisher. His following books are Firenze nera (with Emiliano Gucci, Aliberti, 2006), Nero di luna (Guanda, 2007), Bloody Mary (with Leonardo Gori, 2008), Per nessun motivo (Rizzoli, 2008), Buio d’amore (Barbès, 2008), Morte a Firenze (Guanda, 2009), the forth book of commissario Bordelli, Noi, soli. Oberto e Maria (Mauro Pagliai, 2010), Pellegrinaggio in città (Mauro Pagliai, 2010).
For Guanda, he edited the antologies Città in nero (2006) and Delitti in provincia (2007). His books have been translated into Greek, Portuguese, Spanish and German. Since 2003, he has been teaching in writing workshops held in various Italian cities, and at the University of Florence, degree course in Media and Journalism. He cooperates at the writing of scripts and writes on national daily newspapers and magazines.