Bernadette Calonego was born in Stans, Switzerland. She now resides and works as a freelance foreign correspondent and a novelist near Vancouver, Canada.
She has a diploma from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where she focussed on modern languages. Her career has included working as a reporter/editor for Reuters newsagency in Zurich. From 1990 to 2000, she was the foreign correspondent for “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and “Der Standard” , reporting from Switzerland.
She has written regularly for newspapers like “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in Munich, “Der Standard” in Vienna, Austria, “Tages-Anzeiger” and “Finanz und Wirtschaft” in Zurich, Switzerland, and a range of other important German language newspapers.
Bernadette Calonego`s stories have been published in magazines like GEO, Vogue, SZ-Magazin, natur + kosmos, foto magazin, Börse Online, EMMA, abenteuer + reisen, Häuser and in newspapers such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Weltwoche.
In October 2005, her first book Nutze deine Feinde (Make use of your enemies) was published by Bloomsbury Berlin Verlag.
In August 2007, her second book Unter dunklen Wassern (Under dark waters) was also published by Bloomsbury Berlin Verlag.
In November 2011, her third book Oh, wie schön ist Kanada! Leben unterm Ahornblatt (O, how beautiful is Canada! Life under the Maple Leaf) was published by Ullstein Verlag.
In June 2012, The Zurich Conspiracy was published by AmazonCrossing (you can read an excerpt on the page “Books”).
In April 2015, the mystery novel Under Dark Waters, also by AmazonCrossing, was launched.
Bernadette Calonego`s fourth book, was published in July 2015, first in German as Die Bucht des Schweigens and then in English as Stormy Cove in 2016.
The English version of the book Die Fremde auf dem Eis was published in August 2018 as The Stranger on the Ice.
In September 2017, the German mystery novel Die letzte Erkenntnis was launched.
It was followed by Mörderischer Morgen in 2019 (English title Murderous Morning, 2020).
In 2020, Eisiger Kerker came out (translated as Cries from the Cold), and in 2021, Kalte Klippen, (translated as A Dark Chill). In the same year, Grabesgrauen was launched. All three books are part of the Detective Calista Gates series.
Bernadette Calonego is working on a new murder mystery.