David Hewson

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1989
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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About the Author

david Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He was a journalist from the age of seventeen, working most recently for the Sunday Times. He has also written several novels, as well as a number of travel books. Following a Season for the Dead, The Villa of Mysteries, The Sacred Cut, The Lizard's Bite and The Seventh Sacrament, the Garden of Evil is the sixth in his Italian Crime Series featuring Detective Nic Costa. The author lives in Kent.

Full Series List in Order

A Faroe Islands Mystery

1 - Devil's Fjord (Mar-2019)

Nic Costa

1 - A Season for the Dead (Mar-2004)
2 - The Villa of Mysteries (Jan-2005)
3 - The Sacred Cut (Dec-2005)
4 - The Lizard's Bite (Nov-2006)
5 - The Seventh Sacrament (Aug-2007)
6 - The Garden of Evil (Jan-2008)
7 - Dante's Numbers // The Dante Killings (Apr-2009)
8 - The Blue Demon // City of Fear (Feb-2010)
9 - The Fallen Angel (May-2011)
10 - The Savage Shore (Nov-2018)

A Venetian Mystery

1 - The Medici Murders (Oct-2022)
2 - The Borgia Portrait (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Semana Santa

    From the author of EPIPHANY, a crime thriller which is set in Spain and concerned with a double murder which occurs during a week of religious celebration. The murders are linked to historical secrets and to official corruption, and before the religi...

  • Solstice

    With the new millenium's arrival, the climate on Earth is getting progressively hotter, a phenomenon that is driving the population to near mass hysteria. For a man and a woman drawn into the upper echelons of a worldwide scientific search, the appar...

  • A Season for the Dead

    Nic Costa - 1

    Welcome to Italian police detective Nic Costa's Rome: the side of the city the tourist board does not want you to see."Hewson does more than provide a thrilling read. He saves you the airfare to Italy. When you turn the last page, you'll think you've...

  • Lucifer's Shadow

    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 m...

  • The Villa of Mysteries

    Nic Costa - 2

    In Rome's crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two carabinieri lounging in their sunglasses and uniforms, insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been abducted. Detective Nic Costa sees the scene unfold and intervenes. Because ...

  • The Sacred Cut

    Nic Costa - 3

    The snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon's great dome, a woman's body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....In David Hewson's ingenious new th...

  • The Lizard's Bite

    Nic Costa - 4

    On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve....In this sp...

  • The Seventh Sacrament

    Nic Costa - 5

    When seven-year-old Alessio Bramante vanished, there was plenty of blame to go around. His father, a charismatic professor of archaeology, inexplicably left Alessio alone near a labyrinth of ancient tunnels and excavations. And then there were the po...

  • The Garden of Evil

    Nic Costa - 6

    Welcome to Italian police detective Nic Costa's Rome: the side of the city the tourist board does not want you to see."Hewson does more than provide a thrilling read. He saves you the airfare to Italy. When you turn the last page, you'll think you've...



  • Dante's Numbers // The Dante Killings

    Nic Costa - 7

    It was a warm, golden evening in Rome--a night filled with anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new film version of Dante's Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among th...

  • The Promised Land

    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. Languishing on death row a long 23 years later, he still has ...

  • The Circle

    in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

    Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this intense Thriller Short from bestselling author David Hewson, a comfortable is...

  • The Cemetery of Secrets

  • The Blue Demon // City of Fear

    Nic Costa - 8

    Welcome to Italian police detective Nic Costa's Rome: the side of the city the tourist board does not want you to see."Hewson does more than provide a thrilling read. He saves you the airfare to Italy. When you turn the last page, you'll think you've...

  • Death in Seville

    The author of the Nic Costa mysteries presents a rewritten version of his first novel, first published in 1995 as Santa Semana It is Holy Week in Seville and the heat is rising. A murderer is on the loose and visiting academic Maria Gutierrez can s...

  • The Fallen Angel

    Nic Costa - 9

    Acclaimed author David Hewson returns with this mesmerizing new thriller featuring Nic Costa and the detectives of Rome's Questura. This time Costa must solve a case with roots buried deep in one of the ancient city's most infamous episodes -- a stor...

  • The Killing

    David Hewson's The Killing 1 is the novelization of the first series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing.'Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, lik...

  • The Killing 1

  • Carnival for the Dead

    Novelist David Hewson brings Byzantine and dreamlike Venice vividly to life in this dark and deftly plotted mystery that hearkens back to the spellbinding tales of Donna Leon and M. R. James. For as long as she can remember, Teresa Lupo has envied...



  • The Killing 2

    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 in disgrace for a remote...

  • The House of Dolls

    Where dark secrets lurk behind every door . . .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...

  • The Killing 3

    David Hewson's The Killing 3 is the novelization of the third series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing.Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what fi...

  • Last Exit To Fuengirola

    Alf Hawkins has just got out of Wormwood Scrubs after a twelve-year stretch for murder. His wife has whisked him off to the Costa del Sol 'to keep him out of trouble'. But trouble is just around the corner because the bent copper who put him in jail ...

  • The Flood

    A dazzling Italian mystery, rich in intrigue and dark secrets, from an internationally bestselling crime writer at the height of his powers. Florence, 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings together an unl...

  • Sleep Baby Sleep

    Sleep Baby Sleep is the fourth title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson''s atmospheric crime novels set in Amsterdam.Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years-old. She works in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market where her father h...

  • Juliet & Romeo

    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 parents with a s...

  • The Savage Shore

    Nic Costa - 10

    Detective Nic Costa finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he’s sent to infiltrate the mob in a remote part of southern Italy. Roman police detective Nic Costa has been sent undercover to Italy’s beautiful, remote Calabrian coast to ...

  • Devil's Fjord

    A Faroe Islands Mystery - 1

    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, his first few weeks ...

  • Last Seen Wearing

    It's a private eye's job to dig up secrets. But what if those secrets turn out to be her own? It's been two years since Dinah Collins left the NYPD in disgrace, forced out for digging too deeply into the sudden disappearance of a fell...



  • Shooter in the Shadows

    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 it all based on a lie? ...

  • The Garden of Angels

    A THE TIMES BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2022 When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches " earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his gra...

  • Dead Men's Socks

  • The Medici Murders

    A Venetian Mystery - 1

    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 ...

  • The Borgia Portrait

    A Venetian Mystery - 2

    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 counte...

  • Little Sister

  • The Wrong Girl

  • Baptiste

    The official prequel to the hit television showFrance, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to...

  • When the Germans Come

    1940: The people of Dover, England, wait for the Nazi invasion. But what if Hitler’s agents are already among them? “A true master of his craft.” -- Craig Russell, author of The Devil Aspect Canadian journalist Jessica Marshall is reporting fr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Hewson has published 38 books.

David Hewson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, When the Germans Come, was published in November 2024.

The first book by David Hewson, Semana Santa, was published in January 1989.

Yes. David Hewson has 3 series.
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