David Hewson creëert meeslepende verhalen, variërend van spannende misdaadseries die zich in Italië afspelen tot sfeervolle bewerkingen van gevierde televisiedrama's en originele hoorspelen. Zijn werk getuigt van een meesterschap in spanning en karakterontwikkeling, waarbij hij lezers onderdompelt in complex geplande verhalen die de donkerdere kanten van de menselijke natuur verkennen. Hewson's kenmerkende stijl en scherpe oog voor detail hebben hem gevestigd als een belangrijke stem in de hedendaagse spannende fictie.
Na de verwijding van zijn dochter heeft een rechercheur de Amsterdamse politie de rug toegekeerd, maar als drie jaar later een gelijksoortige verdwijning plaatsvindt, laat hij zich overhalen om het onderzoek op zich te nemen.
Zes hectische dagen met hysterische processies, stierengevechten en uitbundige festiviteiten. Het krankzinnige decor voor een serie gruwelijke moorden. Thriller.
Bij haar onderzoek naar politiemethoden in een Spaanse stad raakt een jonge vrouw tijdens de Goede Week betrokken bij gruwelijke moorden.
Voor het eerst sinds lange tijd wordt Rome geteisterd door een sneeuwstorm. Tijdens dit noodweer krijgt de politie een inbraakmelding vanuit het Pantheon. Wanneer de rechercheurs Nic Costa en Gianni Peroni bij de oude Romeinse tempel aankomen, treffen zij een gruwelijk tafereel aan. Onder de zacht neerdalende sneeuw ligt het vreselijk toegetakelde lichaam van een vrouw. De verminkingen verwijzen naar de Vitruviaanse Man van Leonardo Da Vinci, een mysterieus symbool dat alles te maken heeft met de Gulden Snede, de maatstaf voor de architectuur in de renaissance. Al snel staat de FBI op de stoep en wil - geheel tegen de zin van de Italianen - het onderzoek overnemen en de zaak zo snel en stil mogelijk afronden. Costa is vastbesloten om erachter te komen waarom deze kwestie blijkbaar zo delicaat is. Dan geeft de FBI schoorvoetend toe dat dit niet het eerste slachtoffer is: op verschillende plekken in de wereld zijn zes mensen op dezelfde manier om het leven gebracht. De FBI wordt gedwongen meer geheime informatie prijs te geven dan haar lief is...
Wanneer in Rome een seriemoordenaar actief is die de vroege martelaren van het christendom imiteert, leidt het spoor al gauw naar het Vaticaan.
De rijke glasblazersfamilie Arcangelo bewoont een gigantisch vervallen palazzo op een eiland nabij Venetië. In een warme augustusnacht breekt een felle brand uit in de glasblazerij, waarbij het echtpaar Arcangelo om het leven komt. In eerste instantie lijkt er sprake te zijn van een tragisch bedrijfsongeval, maar algauw zijn er redenen om aan te nemen dat het om een misdrijf gaat. De Romeinse rechercheurs Nic Costa en Leo Falcone, beiden met verlof in Venetië, worden op de zaak gezet door inspecteur Randazzo. Volgens hem is het een simpel verhaal: Arcangelo heeft zijn vrouw vermoord en daarna zelfmoord gepleegd. Deze uitkomst is vooral gunstig voor Hugo Massiter, een zeer invloedrijke Engelsman met een dubieuze reputatie, die het eiland van de familie Arcangelo wil kopen. Bij hun onderzoek doen de twee rechercheurs een aantal opmerkelijke ontdekkingen. Bijgestaan door de vasthoudende patholoog-anatoom Teresa Lupo blijken Costa en Falcone blind voor gevestigde belangen. Ze weten dat er moord in het spel is, ze weten wie de verdachten zijn, en ze kunnen niet opgeven, niet nu de zaak zich tegen een van hen dreigt te keren...
In het moerasgebied langs de Tiber wordt het goed geconserveerde lijk van een tienermeisje gevonden, gekleed in een klassieke toga. Patholoog Teresa Lupo denkt dat het een eeuwenoud slachtoffer van een heidens ritueel betreft. Maar onderzoek wijst uit dat het meisje zestien jaar geleden is vermoord. Dan wordt een zestienjarige Engelse toeriste ontvoerd. Het meisje vertoont veel uiterlijke overeenkomst met het pas gevonden slachtoffer. De geschiedenis dreigt zich te herhalen wanneer duidelijk wordt dat de rituelen ter ere van Bacchus nog altijd uitgevoerd worden en de verschrikkingen waarschijnlijk nog niet ten einde zijn.
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 mystery and eroticism. An earnest young academic, Daniel has come for a summer job cataloguing a private collector’s library. But when Daniel’s employer sends him to buy a stolen violin from a petty thief, a chain reaction of violence and deception ignites. Suddenly Daniel is drawn into a police investigation—and a tempest swirling around a beautiful woman, a mysterious palazzo, and a lost musical masterpiece dating back centuries. With each step he takes, Daniel unwittingly retraces a journey that began in 1733, when another young man came to Venice. And when, in this realm of intrigue and beauty, two lovers came face-to-face with a killer—and a mystery was born. Separated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal, and danger collide in David Hewson’s dazzling novel. Sweeping us from the intrigue of Vivaldi’s Venice to the gritty world of a modern cop, from the genius of a prodigy to the greed of a killer, Lucifer’s Shadow builds to a shattering crescendo—and one last, breathtaking surprise. From the Hardcover edition.
At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943.A Times Best Thriller Book of 2022The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice’s Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he’s waited his whole life to share.When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . .Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather’s when Paolo’s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city’s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can’t stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.
Florence, 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an English art student, and semi-retired detective Pino Fratelli. Their investigations lead them to the secret society that underpins the city: an elite underworld of violence, excess and desire.
A page-turning adaptation of the first season of the original Danish television series The Killing, from the author of the Detective Nic Costa series 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 zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland, through the Pentecost Forest. The chill water, the fear, his presence not so far away . . . There is one torchlight on her now, the single blazing eye. And it is here. Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when 19-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nanna's family struggles to cope with their loss, local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall and the murder suddenly come to light, the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of 20 days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.
It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark - a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realises that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed ..
Family tragedy, family legacy, family secrets - Detective Nic Costa faces his hardest case yet.
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 in his departure from the police force. Pieter now lives in a broken down houseboat in the colourful Amsterdam neighbourhood of the Jordaan. One day, while Vos is wasting time at the Rijksmuseum staring at a doll's house that seems to be connected in some way to the case, Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective from the provinces, visits him. She's come to tell him that Katja Prins, daughter of an important local politician, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese. In the company of the intriguing and awkward Bakker Vos finds himself drawn back into the life of a detective. A life which he thought he had left behind. Hoping against hope that somewhere will lay a clue to the fate of Anneliese, the daughter he blames himself for losing . . .
Detective Pieter Vos and his assistant, Laura Bakker, investigate the kidnapping of a young girl during Amsterdam's Sinterlkaas event
Sleep Baby Sleep is the fourth title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson's atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops.
Nic Costa has been sent undercover to the Calabrian coast to bring in the head of the feared 'Ndrangheta. But the deception is taking its toll. Out of their depth in a lawless part of Italy, Costa and his team find themselves pitched as much against one another as the mob. Is Nic getting too close to the enemy for comfort?
The official prequel to the hit television show BBC One's BAPTISTE
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 killers. Today, Marmaduke Godolphin, British TV historian and a man even fewer will miss, is stabbed by a stiletto blade on the exact same spot, his body dropping into the canal. Can the story of the first murder explain the attack on Godolphin? The Carabinieri certainly think so. They recruit retired archivist Arnold Clover to unpick the mystery and to help solve the case. But the conspiracy against Godolphin runs deeper than anyone imagined.
The sixth novel in Hewson's riveting Italian crime series
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 message and a kidnapped child. Now, the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered, seemingly by a strange young man dressed as an Etruscan god, detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved. The Blue Demon appear to have returned - and planning, under the leadership of the fanatical Andrea Petrakis, to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks on the city. As Costa and his team start to dig deeper into the past, they find that there are still too many unanswered questions – and much more to the history of the Blue Demon than anyone wants to admit...
Exploring themes of identity and generational conflict, this reimagining of the classic tale delves deeper into the lives of its characters, particularly Juliet, who seeks autonomy in a patriarchal society. David Hewson's modern retelling introduces unexpected twists, enriching the narrative beyond its tragic roots. With contemporary language and a fresh perspective, it transforms the familiar story into a vibrant examination of hope and despair, appealing to today's readers. The audio version, narrated by Richard Armitage, has received critical acclaim, including an Audie Award.
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 countess, disappeared thirty years ago, presumed dead. Her father has just died and now the family home, a leaning palazzo in Dorsoduro that is full of secrets, has fallen to her. When her mother vanished so too did a priceless painting - but it quickly becomes apparent that Lizzie and Arnold are not the only ones interested in finding it. The search for the lost Lucrezia quickly becomes a race through the secret history of Venice, one with potentially deadly consequences.
When a former archaeology professor is released from jail bent upon revenge, Detective Nic Costa of the Rome Questura faces the revival of a cold case which his colleague Inspector Leo Falcone first tackled as a mid-ranking officer years before
"Her death will haunt us forever. Now the price must be paid."Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old when their family was killed. The sisters were accused of murdering the lead singer of a world-famous pop band in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam, believing him to be responsible for their family's deaths. The evidence seemed irrefutable at the time and the sisters were imprisoned in Marken, a local psychiatric institution. Now, ten years later, they are due for release.Pieter Vos, a detective with the Amsterdam police, is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear along with the nurse responsible for escorting them to a halfway house. When the nurse's corpse washes up on the beach at Marken, it becomes apparent that the institution holds the key to the investigation. And it seems that Vos's boss, De Groot, has something to hide which is relevant to the case.Then, the case takes an unexpected turn when it becomes clear that someone is posing as Little Jo - Kim and Mia's other sister - who was supposedly murdered along with their parents ten years ago...
The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial new film, Inferno. But at the grand unveiling this priceless artifact is replaced by a macabre death mask of the film's star, Allan Prime. Nic Costa and his team follow the movie to its next showing in San Francisco where confusing new clues suggest that there is more behind the killing than a crazed Dante fan.
In this psychological thriller two local boys go missing, exposing the darkness at the heart of the Faroe Islands 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 in office swiftly correct him of that notion.Provoked into taking part in the village's whale hunt against his will, Haraldsen blunders badly, and in the ensuing chaos two local boys go missing. Blaming himself, Haraldsen dives into the investigation and soon learns that the boys are not the first to have gone missing on Vagar.As Tristan and Elsebeth become increasingly ensnared by the island's past, they realise its wild beauty hides an altogether uglier and sinister truth.
As the millennium approaches, the climate on Earth is getting progressively hotter, a phenomenon which makes scientists and others extremely nervous. Unease quickly turns to panic when Air Force One is successfully downed, key communications networks are disrupted, and the world's financial institutions are pushed to the brink of collapse. CIA science chief Helen Wagner and Michael Lieberman, a brilliant designer of a giant space-based solar array, must contend with techno-savvy activists who plan to use the array to cut modern society off at the knees...and start civilization over from scratch.
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.
Set against the backdrop of a transforming Denmark on the brink of war with Norway, the story explores themes of ghosts, madness, and revenge. Hamlet, the son of the former king and nephew to the new ruler, finds himself ensnared in a complex web of deception and murder, as old alliances crumble and new intrigues emerge. The narrative delves into the psychological turmoil and moral dilemmas faced by Hamlet as he navigates this treacherous landscape.
Das Erntedankfest im September ist einer der Höhepunkte im Kalender des Dorfes. Es steigt eine ausschweifende Sause um den Scheiterhaufen, auf dem nachts nach altem Brauch eine Strohpuppe verbrannt wird. Alison, die erst vor kurzem ins Dorf gezogen ist, hat dem Alkohol ebenso reichlich zugesprochen wie ihre Nachbarn. Trotzdem ist sie plötzlich hellwach, als sie das grauenhafte Gefühl hat, in der Strohpuppe einen Menschen zu entdecken. Die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Einbildung verwischen - war es eine Illusion, oder hat sie einem Menschenopfer beigewohnt? Alison muss herausfinden, was sich hinter der Fassade des netten englischen Dorfes abspielt.§
Weihnachten 1975 geschieht im Drogenrausch ein Mord, den nur einer begeht, während die anderen zuschauen. Zwanzig Jahre später werden die damaligen Freunde mit der vergessenen Geschichte konfrontiert, als eine mysteriöse Frau das Geheimnis ans Licht bringt und das Grauen die Gegenwart einholt.
Harold Middleton, un ex investigatore di crimini di guerra, entra in possesso di una partitura di Chopin. Ciò che non sa, però, è che tra quelle note scritte a mano si nasconde un segreto che potrebbe minacciare la vita di milioni di americani. Middleton viaggia dalla Polonia agli Stati Uniti per sciogliere il mistero del manoscritto, viene accusato di omicidio, inseguito dai federali e si trasforma ben presto nell'obiettivo di un temibile assassino. Ma la minaccia più letale proviene dal suo passato: un uomo ritorna nella sua vita, come un'ombra. Un uomo che tutti chiamano Faust. Un libro in cui i più grandi autori di thriller si alternano in un turbine di azione e suspense, ognuno firmando un diverso capitolo.
Vor der einzigartigen Kulisse Venedigs erzählt David Hewson eine mitreißende Geschichte von Widerstand, Liebe und Zivilcourage. Als der fünfzehnjährige Nico Uccello seinen Großvater Paolo im Krankenhaus besucht, vertraut ihm der todkranke Mann ein Manuskript an, das Nicos Leben und seinen Blick auf den geliebten „Nonno“ radikal verändern wird. Im Herbst 1943 ist Venedig von deutschen Truppen besetzt. Der junge Paolo Uccello kämpft nach dem Tod seiner Eltern um den Erhalt des Familienunternehmens, einer traditionsreichen Seidenweberei. Nur widerwillig bietet er im heruntergekommenen Palazzo der Familie dem jüdischen Geschwisterpaar Mika und Giovanni Unterschlupf. Beide gehören dem italienischen Widerstand an und sind auf der Flucht vor den Nazischergen. Bald aber droht die Deportation der gesamten jüdischen Gemeinde Venedigs und Paolo muss eine Entscheidung treffen. Wird er den Mut aufbringen, das Richtige zu tun? Könnten wir es? Vom Autor der Bücher zur TV-Serie „Kommissarin Lund – Das Verbrechen“. „Eine der Fragen, die ich beantworten wollte, war: Was bringt einen ganz normalen, nicht besonders heldenhaften Bürger dazu, sein Leben und das seiner Familie zu riskieren, um sich dem Terror entgegenzustellen? Woher kommt dieser Mut?“ (David Hewson)
In den Docks von Kopenhagen wird eine zerstückelte Leiche gefunden. Als Ministerpräsident Hartmann und der Inlandsgeheimdienst auftauchen, ahnt Kommissarin Lund, dass es sich um kein gewöhnliches Verbrechen handelt. Schnell rücken die international operierende Reederei Zeeland und ihr Vorstandsvorsitzender Zeuthen ins Zentrum der Ermittlungen. Doch dann wird Zeuthens Tochter Emilie entführt. Ihr Verschwinden, stellt sich heraus, steht in Zusammenhang mit der Ermordung eines Mädchens in Jütland. Lund versucht die Spuren der unterschiedlichen Fälle zu deuten und gerät dabei immer tiefer in die Verstrickungen zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Ein Wettlauf um das Leben des Kindes beginnt.
