After graduating civil engineering in Bucharest, Bogdan Hrib embarked on a varied career encompassing the professions of photographer, journalist (from 1991), advertising agency director (1992) and book editor (from 1993). Bogdan Hrib’s debut as a crime fiction writer came in 2007 with Filiera grecească (The Greek Connection), the first book in the Stelian Munteanu series. It was followed by Blestemul manuscrisului (The Curse of the Manuscript, 2008), Somalia, Mon Amour (2009), Ucideți generalul (March 2011), translated and published by Profusion Publishers as Kill the General (November 2011). The novel Ultima fotografie (The Last Photograph, 2012) is not crime fiction. The most recent novel signed by Bogdan Hrib is (Patimile doamnei ministru (Passions of Madam Minister, 2016), the fifth book of Stelian Munteanu series. A keen photographer, Bogdan is a member of the Romanian Photographers’ Association and he has PhD on the press photography in Romania. From 2008, Bogdan has been the editorial director of Crime Scene Publishing in Bucharest. He was also the vice-president of the Romanian Crime Writers Club (from 2010), and served as editorial counsellor of Flacăra Magazine (2010-12).