Tim was born and raised in the City of Essen, Germany. He started writing stories about ghosts and vampires while still at school. He co-wrote the script for a vampire musical and directed it himself (since he could neither sing nor sufficiently master a musical instrument, but desperately wanted to take part in the production).Tim’s first novel ‘The Castle’, a horror thriller and tribute to Richard Layman, was the Amazon #1 horror bestseller for over two months and hit the overall Amazon Kindle Top 10 in Germany. The radio play of the book appeared as episode 9 in the series ‘Dark Mysteries’.Tim’s homage to H.P Lovecraft, ‘Music of Darkness’, was nominated best German-language horror/mystery short story for the ‘VINCENT PREIS’.The original German-language edition of ‘Sacrifice’, book 1 of the “Karre & Viktoria” crime series, hit #3 on the German Amazon Kindle bestseller list. As of today the series has been translated into English and French.Tim lives in Germany. He is married with two children.