Cornelius O'Mahony is an Irish writer and lawyer with a lifelong fascination with the intersection of criminal law, forensic science, and the darker chapters of European history. Born and educated in Ireland, he practised law before turning his attention to narrative nonfiction, bringing a barrister's eye for evidence and argument to the reconstruction of historical criminal cases. He now lives and writes in Malta, where the Mediterranean light and the long view of European history provide fertile ground for his explorations of crime, justice, and the human capacity for both.
O'Mahony writes at the boundary between rigorous historical scholarship and compelling narrative - books that are as attentive to the social and psychological conditions that produce violence as they are to the forensic details of how it was committed and detected. His work is characterised by a deep scepticism of easy explanations, a respect for the complexity of the individuals at the centre of each case, and an Irish storyteller's instinct for the telling detail that illuminates the whole.
Adolf Seefeldt is among his most ambitious works, tracing not only the crimes of Adolf Seefeldt but the world - Imperial, Weimar, and Nazi - that both made him possible and eventually, in its own deeply compromised way, brought him to account.

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