Matti Rönkä is a Finnish journalist and novelist born in 1959. He grew up in Karelia, in the Finnish countyside close to the Russian border, before moving to Helsinki, where he studied political science. Nowadays, Rönkä is a very famous TV-journalist and TV-profile, known in the whole country. 

Since 2002, Rönkä is a famous crime novelist as well. What is typical with Matti Rönkä's book is their humoristic and sarcastic style. Furthermore, Rönkä is a sharp critic of Finnish society, and uses his crime novels to express it. Matti Rönkä is a famous crime writer, both in Finland and abroad.