Tobias Jones (writer)

He has written various works of fiction and non-fiction, and appears regularly on British and Italian TV and Radio.

Jones' third non-fiction book, Blood on the Altar, is a real-life mystery about the disappearance of Elisa Claps, a teenager murdered in a church in Potenza in 1993.

The case took nearly 20 years to be solved, in which time her family came up against a corrupt church, organised crime and the chronic indifference of the authorities.

[2] A Place of Refuge was the story of Windsor Hill Wood, a Somerset sanctuary for people going through a period of crisis in their lives.

[4] The Salati Case was the first in a series of crime novels featuring Castagnetti, a bee-keeping private detective in northern Italy.

Blood on the Altar and Ultra have both been optioned by film companies, as has Jones’s Guardian Long Read about the disappearance of Yara Gambirasio.