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David Hewson
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david Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He was a journalist from the age of seventeen, working most recently for the Sunday Times. He has also written several novels, as well as a number of travel books. Following a Season for the Dead, The Villa of Mysteries, The Sacred Cut, The Lizard's Bite and The Seventh Sacrament, the Garden of Evil is the sixth in his Italian Crime Series featuring Detective Nic Costa. The author lives in Kent.
Full Series List in Order
A Faroe Islands Mystery
1 - Devil's Fjord (Mar-2019)Nic Costa
1 - A Season for the Dead (Mar-2004)2 - The Villa of Mysteries (Jan-2005)
3 - The Sacred Cut (Dec-2005)
4 - The Lizard's Bite (Nov-2006)
5 - The Seventh Sacrament (Aug-2007)
6 - The Garden of Evil (Jan-2008)
7 - Dante's Numbers // The Dante Killings (Apr-2009)
8 - The Blue Demon // City of Fear (Feb-2010)
9 - The Fallen Angel (May-2011)
10 - The Savage Shore (Nov-2018)
A Venetian Mystery
1 - The Medici Murders (Oct-2022)2 - The Borgia Portrait (Aug-2023)
Book List in Order: 37 titles
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Semana Santa
- Jan-1989
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From the author of EPIPHANY, a crime thriller which is set in Spain and concerned with a double murder which occurs during a week of religious celebration. The murders are linked to historical secrets and to official corruption, and before the religi...
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A Season for the Dead
- Mar-2004
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THE FIRST IN THE ACCLAIMED NIC COSTA SERIES 'No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me -- nor made it seem so sinister' Peter James 'David Hewson’s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ri...
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Lucifer's Shadow
- Aug-2004
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In an ancient burial ground on an island off Venice, a young woman's casket is pried open, an object is wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary adventure begins. From the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the city's m...
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The Villa of Mysteries
- Jan-2005
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In Rome's crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two carabinieri lounging in their sunglasses and uniforms, insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been abducted. Detective Nic Costa sees the scene unfold and intervenes. Because ...
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The Sacred Cut
- Dec-2005
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The snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....In David Hewson's ingenious new th...
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The Lizard's Bite
- Nov-2006
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On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve....In this sp...
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The Seventh Sacrament
- Aug-2007
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When seven-year-old Alessio Bramante vanished, there was plenty of blame to go around. His father, a charismatic professor of archaeology, inexplicably left Alessio alone near a labyrinth of ancient tunnels and excavations. And then there were the po...
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The Garden of Evil
- Jan-2008
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In a deserted artist’s studio in the heart of Rome, detectives stumble upon a scene of shocking brutality: two bodies, freshly killed. Looming over them is a painting that bears all the hallmarks of a Caravaggio: a brilliantly colored canvas depict...
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Dante's Numbers // The Dante Killings
- Apr-2009
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It was a warm, golden evening in Rome--a night filled with anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new film version of Dante's Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among th...
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The Promised Land
- Apr-2009
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Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then on one sunny day in July his wife and their young son were savagely beaten to death and Bierce was convicted of their murders. Languishing on death row a long 23 years later, he still has ...
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The Circle
- Jun-2009
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Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this intense Thriller Short from bestselling author David Hewson, a comfortable is...
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The Blue Demon // City of Fear
- Feb-2010
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Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake a group of dead students, a murdered couple, a cryptic mes...
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Death in Seville
- May-2011
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The author of the Nic Costa mysteries presents a rewritten version of his first novel, first published in 1995 as Santa Semana It is Holy Week in Seville and the heat is rising. A murderer is on the loose and visiting academic Maria Gutierrez can s...
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The Fallen Angel
- May-2011
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Acclaimed author David Hewson returns with this mesmerizing new thriller featuring Nic Costa and the detectives of Rome's Questura. This time Costa must solve a case with roots buried deep in one of the ancient city's most infamous episodes -- a stor...
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The Killing
- May-2012
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David Hewson's The Killing 1 is the novelization of the first series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing.'Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, lik...
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Carnival for the Dead
- Aug-2012
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Novelist David Hewson brings Byzantine and dreamlike Venice vividly to life in this dark and deftly plotted mystery that hearkens back to the spellbinding tales of Donna Leon and M. R. James. For as long as she can remember, Teresa Lupo has envied...
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The Killing 2
- Jan-2013
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David Hewson's The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing.It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote...
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The House of Dolls
- Jan-2014
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Where dark secrets lurk behind every door . . .Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago in mysterious circumstances. Her distraught father''s desperate search reveals nothing and results...
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The Killing 3
- Feb-2014
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David Hewson's The Killing 3 is the novelization of the third series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing.Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what fi...
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Last Exit To Fuengirola
- Sep-2014
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Alf Hawkins has just got out of Wormwood Scrubs after a twelve-year stretch for murder. His wife has whisked him off to the Costa del Sol 'to keep him out of trouble'. But trouble is just around the corner because the bent copper who put him in jail ...
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Sleep Baby Sleep
- Nov-2017
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Sleep Baby Sleep is the fourth title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson''s atmospheric crime novels set in Amsterdam.Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years-old. She works in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market where her father h...
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Juliet & Romeo
- May-2018
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Two young people meet: Romeo, desperate for love before being sent away to study, and Juliet facing a forced marriage to a nobleman she doesn't know. Fate and circumstance bring them together in a desperate attempt to thwart their parents with a s...
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The Savage Shore
- Nov-2018
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Detective Nic Costa finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he’s sent to infiltrate the mob in a remote part of southern Italy. Roman police detective Nic Costa has been sent undercover to Italy’s beautiful, remote Calabrian coast to ...
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Devil's Fjord
- Mar-2019
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A remote island. An isolated community. A terrible secret. If the new District Sheriff, Tristan Haraldsen, thought moving to a remote village on the island of Vagar would be the chance for a peaceful life with his wife Elsebeth, his first few weeks ...
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Last Seen Wearing
- Sep-2019
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It's a private eye's job to dig up secrets. But what if those secrets turn out to be her own? It's been two years since Dinah Collins left the NYPD in disgrace, forced out for digging too deeply into the sudden disappearance of a fell...
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Shooter in the Shadows
- Aug-2020
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Tom Honeyman made his name cracking a horrific double murder in his hometown of Prosper, New York. He got an international best seller out of it, made a small fortune, and left his newspaper reporting days behind. But was it all based on a lie? ...
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The Garden of Angels
- Apr-2021
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A THE TIMES BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2022 When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches â€" earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his gra...
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The Medici Murders
- Oct-2022
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Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today. 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two hired ...
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The Borgia Portrait
- Aug-2023
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A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess the journey he is about to embark on. Lizzie's mother, an Italian counte...
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