Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli is an Italian science fiction and thriller author.

Between 2012-2013 she published a hard science fiction series set on Mars and titled “Deserto rosso”. Its English edition, “Red Desert”, was published between 2014 and 2015.

She also authored 3 crime thrillers in the Detective Eric Shaw Trilogy - “Il mentore” (2014), “Sindrome” (2016), and “Oltre il limite” (2017) -, an action thriller titled “Affinità d’intenti” (2015), 5 more science fiction novels - “L’isola di Gaia” (2014), “Per caso” (2015), “Ophir. Codice vivente” (2016), “Sirius. In caduta libera” (2018), and “Nave stellare Aurora” (2020) - and a non-fiction book titled “Self-publishing lab. Il mestiere dell’autoeditore” (2020).

“Il mentore” was published in English by AmazonCrossing with the title “The Mentor” in 2015.
“Affinità d’intenti” was published in English with the title “Kindred Intentions” in 2016.

"The Mentor" will be republished in 2022, followed by the other books in the trilogy.