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Lucifer’s Shadow

Lucifer’s Shadow
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • 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,...

Shooter in the Shadows

Shooter in the Shadows
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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...

Sleep Baby Sleep

Sleep Baby Sleep
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years-old. She works in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market where her father has a stall. Brimming with personality, she’s always been popular with the customers. But then she goes missing, only to be found...

The Blue Demon

The Blue Demon
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Blue Demon is the eighth in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in the Eternal City. Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and...

The Devil in Dorsoduro

The Devil in Dorsoduro
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Venice, the beauty hides secrets that are steeped in darkness. It’s August, and the city is melting under the heat. As locals flee for Ferragosto, retired archivist Arnold Clover plans to enjoy the rare silence – until his...

The Four Deadly Seasons

The Four Deadly Seasons
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 18th Century

A centuries-old score. A city built on secrets. A melody that kills. When a celebrated music impresario is found dead in Venice—his body slumped in the hot house of a remote palazzo, a cryptic musical interval in his hand—rumours...

The Garden of Evil

The Garden of Evil
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Murder and mystery set in Rome, The Garden of Evil is the sixth title in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s stunning Italian crime novels.

The Killing II

The Killing II
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

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...

The Killing III

The Killing III
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A family in turmoil. A country in crisis. All debts must be settled. As gripping as Søren Sveistrup’s TV series, David Hewson’s crime thriller The Killing 3 is inspired by the Danish hit The Killing.

The Lizard’s Bite

The Lizard’s Bite
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Lizard’s Bite is the fourth in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in Italy. Life was never black and white in Italy. Something about the place both disturbed and interested him. Venice...

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