David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $21.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-33722-9
U.K. novelist and journalist Hewson (Solstice
) presents the first in a line of thrillers set in Italy and features detective Nic Costa and an ensemble cast drawn from the ranks of the Rome state police. University professor Sara Farnese is at her...
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David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33772-4
This second, slightly uneven entry in British writer Hewson's Nic Costa series (A Season for the Dead
) picks up as the Italian detective reluctantly returns to work following a six-month hiatus after being wounded and losing his partner. Stable
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David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $22 (341p) ISBN 978-0-385-33849-3
A young Iraqi refugee named Laila provides both the heart and the McGuffin in Hewson's elegant new thriller, the third featuring tough Roman detectives Gianni Peroni and Nic Costa (A Season for the Dead
and The Villa of Mysteries
). Laila...
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David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $22 (417p) ISBN 978-0-385-33955-1
British author Hewson's wonderfully complex and finely paced fourth crime novel (after 2005's The Sacred Cut
) to feature Roman detective Nic Costa and his unconventional partner, Gianni Peroni, finds the pair exiled to Venice, where they...
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David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $22 (397p) ISBN 978-0-385-33956-8
The intricate fifth thriller from British author Hewson to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after 2006's The Lizard's Bite
) artfully weaves several points-of-view as it shifts between past and present. Fourteen years after seven-year-old
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David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $24 (470p) ISBN 978-0-385-33957-5
At the outset of this dark jewel of a thriller, Hewson's sixth to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after The Seventh Sacrament
), Costa and his team are just starting to process a crime scene in an artist's shabby studio, where two...
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David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-34148-6
Hewson’s fine seventh crime novel to feature Nic Costa (after The Garden of Evil
) takes the Italian police detective to San Francisco, where aging, ailing director Roberto Tonti is preparing for the premiere of his first major film in 20...
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David Hewson, Author . Delacorte $25 (375p) ISBN 978-0-385-34150-9
A threatened terrorist attack during a G8 conference spells trouble both personal and professional for sovrintendente
Nic Costa in Hewson's assured eighth novel to feature the Roman police detective (after Dante's Numbers
). Italian...
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David Hewson, Author Grand Central Publishing $34 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-52449-0
Nonstop action drives this accessible high-tech thriller, putting frighteningly believable technology into the hands of a brilliant eco-terrorist. Hewson's third novel begins with a hot subject: heightened sunspot activity has accelerated global...
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David Hewson, Author Delacorte Press $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-33794-6
In this Venetian thriller, British author Hewson (A Season for the Dead) offers a tantalizing tale of intrigue, murder and sex. Two props propel the action: a concerto penned by a young Jewish woman in 1733 and performed once, anonymously, before...
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David Hewson, Delacorte, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-34152-3
Near the start of Hewson's accomplished ninth novel featuring Roman detective Nic Costa (after City of Fear), an eccentric English scholar, Malise Gabriel, falls to his death from a balcony, and Nic finds the man's lovely 17-year-old daughter, Mina,
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David Hewson. David Hewson, $2.99 e-book (312p) ISBN 978-1-8380897-0-2
Thomas Honeyman, the hero of this taut thriller from Hewson (the Nic Costa series), made his name and fortune with a true-crime bestseller that claimed to have solved a horrific murder. In 2008, someone locked high school art teacher Mia Buckingham...
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David Hewson. Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (476p) ISBN 978-1-612-18398-5
Hewson (The Promised Land) brings abundant chills to this creepy, well-crafted whodunit set in modern-day Venice. Teresa Lupo, a respected if unconventional pathologist, is deeply troubled that Sofia Bianchi, her beloved aunt, has disappeared....
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David Hewson. Pan (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (720p) ISBN 978-1-4472-0841-9
Despite the episodic nature of the story and its many elements of soap opera, Hewson (Carnival of the Dead) ably adapts to the page the first season of the hit Danish TV series, which tracks the efforts of tenacious Copenhagen homicide detective...
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David Hewson. Pan (IPG, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-4472-4625-1
Hewson’s third novelization of the Danish TV series (after The Killing II) will appeal mainly to viewers of that series. Soon after Emilie, the nine-year-old daughter of Robert Zeuthen, the managing owner of a shipping conglomerate, disappears into...
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David Hewson. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8525-8
Distinctive characters compensate for the at times slow-moving plot of Hewson’s atmospheric Italian mystery, set mainly in Florence in 1986. Pino Fratelli, a semiretired carabineer, meets British graduate student Julia Wellbeloved, who’s studying...
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David Hewson. Crème de la Crime, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-78029-106-2
Hewson’s tedious 10th Nic Costa thriller (after 2011’s Fallen Angel) transports the police detective and his team from Rome to Calabria, the home of a network of gangsters known as the ’Ndrangheta. Nic and his crew must find and arrest a “mysterious
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David Hewson. Crème de la Crime, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-78029-112-3
In this promising series launch from Hewson (the Nic Costa series) set on the Faroe island of Vágar, the chief duty of 55-year-old Tristan Haraldsen, a part-time district sheriff who recently retired from the police on account of his health, is to...
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David Hewson. Severn, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5011-9
At the start of this multigenerational coming-of-age tale from Hewson (the Nic Costa series), Paolo Uccello, the dying patriarch of the House of Uccello, renowned Italian fabric weavers, has a story to tell his 15-year-old grandson, Nico, of his...
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David Hewson. Severn, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0656-5
The murder of British TV historian Marmaduke Godolphin, found floating in a Venetian canal with a stiletto blade in his chest, propels this gripping mystery from Hewson (The Garden of Angels). With the annual Carnival festival under way and tourists
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David Hewson. Severn House, $31.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0657-2
Hewson’s convoluted second mystery narrated by archivist Arnold Clover (following 2022’s The Medici Murders) finds Brit Lizzie Hawker employing him to serve as her guide to Venice. Lizzie’s mother, Venetian countess Lucia Scacchi, disappeared 30...
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