- Location(s): Copenhagen
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
A murder in a reading room at the Vatican, and two bodies in a nearby church. Nic Costa, a young policeman, art connoisseur and son of a communist is asked to investigate. As he delves deeper into the murders...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern and 18th Century
In the ancient burial ground of San Michele on an island off Venice, a young woman’s casket is prised open, an object wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary story begins. Young academic Daniel Forster arrives in Venice working...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Carnival for the Dead is a suspenseful spin-off from the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in Italy. In Venice the past was more reticent. Beyond the tourist sights, San Marco and the Rialto,...
- Location(s): Rome, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller
Allan Prime looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the blood-soaked tip reached his head . . . The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of...
- Location(s): Seville
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
It is Holy Week in Seville and the heat is rising. A murderer is on the loose and visiting academic Maria Gutierrez can see something in his ways that the police are missing. But her insight does nothing to...
- Location(s): The Faroe Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
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,...
- Location(s): The Faroe Islands
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
New District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen uncovers a series of dark secrets when he investigates the disappearance of two boys in the remote Faroe Islands. Newly-appointed District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen and his wife Elsebeth are looking forward to a peaceful...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1500s
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...
- 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,...
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