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A Season for the Dead by David Hewson
23.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Nic Costa
When Sara Farnese pours over ancient texts in the silent Vatican reading room, a brutal murder is taking place in a nearby church. This title is the first in an Italian crime series set in Rome, featuring Caravaggio-loving detective Nic Costa.
Carnival for the Dead by David Hewson
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 16
It's February, and Carnival time in Venice. Bright blue skies and freezing temperatures welcome Teresa Lupo, forensic pathologist to the Rome Questura, to the city. She is greeted off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed as The Plague Doctor. Teresa has taken time out from her job to find he ...Show more
Dante's Numbers: The Seventh Costa Novel by David Hewson
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
Allan Prime looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the blood-soaked tip reached his head ...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 artefact is replaced by a m ...Show more
House of Dolls (Pieter Voss #1) by David Hewson
24.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Detective Pieter Vos
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 ...Show more
Lucifer's Shadow by Hewson, David
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Venice 1733: the young Lorenzo Scacchi has just arrived in the city to work for his uncle at the renowned printing press of Ca
The Fallen Angel by David Hewson
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When the sins of the past echo the crimes of the present - Detective Nic Costa faces his hardest case yet. When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realize that there is much more to the accident than he had first thought. It als ...Show more
The Garden of Evil by David Hewson
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Thriller | Series: Nic Costa
In a hidden studio in an area of Rome, where the Vatican liked to keep an eye on the city's prostitutes, an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings that Nic Costa has ever seen â an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long tragedy will strike Nic ...Show more
The Killing by David Hewson
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'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 f ...Show more
The Lizard's Bite by David Hewson
23.00 NZD
25.00 (8% off)
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: good
"Life was never black and white in Italy... Something about the place both disturbed and interested him. Venice reminded him of a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go." As their exile in Venice draws to a close, Roman detectives Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni are ordered to inv ...Show more
The Lizard's Bite by David Hewson
39.95 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Nic Costa
Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni are ordered to investigate an apparently open-and-shut case, a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives. As they dig more deeply into the insular glass-making region of Murano and the strange Arcangeli family, things don't quite add up. Events spiral quickly out of ...Show more