The real authors are Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero, best known as television scriptwriters.
"[3] Prior to October 2021, the name Carmen Mola was said by the publisher to be the pseudonym of a female writer born in Madrid, a professor in her late 40s and mother of three who wrote crime thrillers in her spare time.
[1] They are Spanish television scriptwriters Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero, all in their 40s and 50s.
The three script writers were friends who in 2017 decided to pool their talents writing crime thrillers.
The authors said it was purely random, but some critics claimed it was a shrewd marketing move that bordered on the unscrupulous: there had been fake interviews with a woman presumed to be Mola, and a picture on the publisher's website showing a woman with her back to the camera identified as Mola.