Peter Heisser was born in Hamburg/Germany, but is nowadays living in Båstad/Sweden. After his career in Marketing he spends most of his time with his interest in genealogy and medieval and early modern history, which resulted in his first book "Häxjägaren" about witch hunts in the german town of Lindheim, which has also been published in German under the title "Der Hexenjäger" and in English "The Witch Hunter".