Police procedural set in REYKJAVIK, Iceland
Lucifer’s Shadow
Location(s): Venice
Genre(s): Thriller
Era(s): 18th century and late 20th century
Complex, beautiful, suspenseful, Lucifer’s Shadow was David Hewson’s tantalising and rewarding novel first novel set in Italy, now republished with a new introduction by the author. Previously republished in some markets as The Cemetery of Secrets.
When Daniel Forster, a young Englishman, arrives in Venice for a summer job, he soon finds that the city’s glittering facade masks a much darker reality. Cataloguing a library of old manuscripts, Daniel discovers a lost musical masterpiece, and is drawn into a game of deception, leading to a vertiginous spiral of criminal conspiracy and erotic pursuit, with its roots in the political minefield of Vivaldi’s Venice. Thus two stories, centuries apart, are intercut and eventually drawn together in a stunning double-twist ending that will leave the reader gasping for breath.
‘Richly enjoyable… sophisticated and beguiling entertainment’. Sunday Times
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