Carlo Schäfer was born in Heidelberg. He grew up as the youngest of three children in Pforzheim in Germany, his father was a Protestant priest there. After leaving school, Schäfer studied German at the University of Heidelberg, but he soon changed to studying at the Heidelberg University of Education (Шаблон:Lang-de). After studying, he worked for ten years as a secondary school teacher in Mannheim. Since 2003 Schäfer has been a lecturer at the Heidelberg University of Education (Institute for German language and literature and its didactics).
Schäfer was also a musician and cabaret performer. From 2002 he has been widely known as a crime author.
His protagonist, Detective Theurer, is a brooding, disillusioned man in his mid-fifties. He died in Heidelberg in 2015.
Bibliography
Im falschen Licht 2002
Der Keltenkreis 2003
Das Opferlamm 2004
Silberrücken 2006
Schlusslicht 2007 (Der letzte Band der Reihe)
Novels that do not take place in Heidelberg:
Kinder und Wölfe 2007
Schattendasein (Jugendkrimi) 2010
Verdachtsmomente (Zweiter Band der Jugendreihe) 2010
