Villa of Mysteries

Informationen zum Autor David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, Sunday Times and the Independent. He is the author of more than thirty novels, including his Rome-based Nic Costa series which has been published in fifteen languages, his Amsterdam-based series featuring detective Pieter Vos and the brand-new Venetian mystery series. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series, The Killing. He lives near Canterbury in Kent. @david_hewson | davidhewson.com Klappentext When the body of a young woman is discovered near the banks of the River Tiber, Nic Costa is drawn into a dark and dangerous underworld. When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes she has the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. Leo Falcone, the chief inspector, knows this case is recent history and the horror is still very much alive. So begins an investigation that will take Nic Costa and his team deep into the dark underworld of modern day Rome's most disturbing and sinister secrets. As they proceed with their enquiries, it soon becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to kill Teresa Lupo. And now another beautiful young woman has gone missing ...

Product details

• Authors: David Hewson
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781847519511
• ISBN: 978-1-84751-951-1
• No. of pages: 470
• Series: A Nic Costa Mystery; A Nic Costa Italian Mystery; A Nic Costa Italian Mystery; A Nic Costa Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime & mystery, Rome, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Italy, Crime and mystery: police procedural