Joaquín Guerrero-Casasola (1962) is a Mexican-Spanish writer. His first novel was Ley Garrote (awarded the International Prize for Crime Fiction L’H Confidencial in 2007), which is now followed by his second work, El pecado de Mama Bayou. In his twenty-year career as a scriptwriter he has written various television series for Mexico, El Salvador, and former Yugoslavia, where he obtained a Best Screenplay prize for the series Jalena. He currently lives in Salamanca, Spain.