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Informationen zum Autor Former Sunday Times journalist David Hewson is well known for his crime-thriller fiction set in European cities. He is the author of the highly acclaimed The Killing novels set in Denmark, the Detective Nic Costa series set in Italy and the Pieter Vos series in Amsterdam. The Killing trilogy is based on the BAFTA award-winning Danish TV series created by Søren Sveistrup and produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. While he lives in Kent, Hewson's ability to capture the sense of place and atmosphere in his fiction comes from spending considerable research time in the cities in which the books are set: Copenhagen, Rome, Venice and Amsterdam. Klappentext Things are looking up for Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni - their humiliating exile in Venice is nearly at an end! and their long-awaited holiday is about to begin. So when they are ordered to investigate an apparently open-and-shut case! a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives! all they want is to wrap it up quickly. However! as they dig more deeply into the insular glass-making region of Murano and the strange Arcangeli family! things don't quite add up. Under pressure from above to finish quickly so that urbane British millionaire Hugo Massiter's property deal can be concluded! events spiral quickly out of control with devastating consequences ...When they realise that the only verdict the local police are interested in is accidental death and a speedily closed file! Costa and Peroni find themselves embroiled in a clandestine and dangerous investigation into the shadowy world that lies beneath Venice's sparkling facade - and where the usual rules do not apply.
