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Ватикан. По романам Дэна Брауна - место самых загадочных, самых таинственных мистических преступлений. Но... Убийство в римской церкви - едва ли не на ступенях Ватикана?.. Безумец с окровавленной сумкой, цитирующий отцов католический церкви... Серия чудовищных преступлений, точно копирующих "страсти святых мучеников" времен гонений на христианство... Дело, которым вынужден заняться талантливый детектив Ник Коста. И прежде всего ему необходимо ответить на вопрос: что связывает единственную свидетельницу Сару Фарнезе, искусствоведа, с сумасшедшим убийцей?

Мумифицированное тело девушки с таинственным жезлом в руке - потрясающая археологическая находка? Нет. Загадочное убийство, совершенное в соответствии с древним ритуалом дионисийских мистерий. Опытный детектив Ник Коста начинает расследование - и узнает, что недавно бесследно исчезла еще одна девушка. И, судя по фотографиям в деле, жертвы были похожи как две капли воды... В Риме появился маньяк, помешанный на мистике? Или девушки стали жертвами тайного общества, практикующего черную магию? Но возможно, происходит что-то другое - еще более странное и загадочное...

Преступник вырезает на спинах своих жертв изображения, напоминающие рисунки Леонардо да Винчи...
Испуганные римляне уверены: в Вечном городе появился маньяк.
Этой версии придерживается команда детективов во главе с Ником Костой.
Они понимают: убийца действует по четкому плану, а его чудовищные рисунки несут в себе скрытый смысл.
Но кому адресованы кровавые послания?
И кто станет следующей жертвой?..

Мужчина совершил убийство из ревности, а потом свел счеты с жизнью?
Так полагает местная полиция, нашедшая тело знаменитого венецианского мастера-стеклодува рядом с обугленным трупом его жены. На первый взгляд эта версия не вызывает сомнений...
Но чем дальше раскручивают дело опытные римские детективы Ник Коста, Лео Фальконе и Джанни Перони, тем яснее они понимают: совершено двойное убийство.
И ключ к его разгадке следует искать в лабиринте опасных тайн, опутавших не только семью убитых, но и всех, кто был с ними связан...

Семилетний сын знаменитого профессора археологии Джорджио Браманте загадочным образом исчезает в храме персидского бога Митры, культ которого был распространен в свое время наравне с христианством.
Найти ребенка не удалось. От горя Браманте едва не теряет рассудок и попадает в тюрьму за убийство студента, которого считает виновным в случившемся.
Но вот проходит четырнадцать лет, и кто-то начинает убивать всех свидетелей пропажи ребенка, и делает это в точном соответствии с жестоким ритуалом жертвоприношения Митре.
Подозрение падает на недавно освободившегося из заключения профессора, однако опытный детектив Лео Фальконе знает наверняка: все не так просто. Чтобы распутать цепочку загадочных убийств, ему приходится снова поднять дело о пропаже маленького сына Браманте...

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 - an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long tragedy will strike Nic far closer to home. The main suspect's identity is known, but he remains untouchable - protected in his grand palazzo by a fleet of lawyers and a sinister cult known as the Ekstasists. If Costa and his team can crack the reasons for the cult's existence, he may well stand a chance of nailing his wife's killer. But the mystery will take…

Dante's Numbers

20 years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre crimes evoking the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake several bodies, a cryptic message, and a kidnapped child. Now, a politician has been found ritually murdered. Have the Blue Demon returned?

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 story of incest, murder, and martyrdom.

It’s August in Rome, and Nic Costa’s vacation is about to be cut short by a scream, a girl covered in blood, and a man lying dead in the Via Beatrice Cenci. It seems that Malise Gabriel, a scholar with an impressive list of enemies, stepped onto faulty scaffolding for a cigarette and fell to his death.

On the surface, it’s no more than an unfortunate accident.

But the deeper Costa looks—into the facts that don’t add up, into the haunted eyes of Gabriel’s beautiful daughter, Mina, and into the mysterious links between the present and the past—the more he’s haunted by disturbing parallels with a centuries-old crime: In 1599, Beatrice Cenci was beheaded by the Vatican for murdering her father, a man known for unthinkable sexual crimes. Does Mina’s obsession with Beatrice intimate her own family’s dark secrets, or is someone using her as a smoke screen for a far deadlier plan?

Soon another body is discovered and Nic comes to doubt his own first impressions. Something evil is circling Mina, her angry and silent mother, her runaway brother, and her family’s checkered history in England, the United States, and Italy. And now that something is closing in fast for the kill.

In a novel that captures modern Rome in all its complexity, as well as its history of beauty and barbarity, genius and blindness, The Fallen Angel is David Hewson at his best—a twisting and twisted contest between innocence and evil.

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.

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

Murder, revenge and betrayal make this Holy Week in Seville the deadliest on record.

At Christmas 1975 a group of Californian students experiment with LSD. One of them, Michael Quinn kidnaps the son of an English professor. When he is released from jail 20 years later, a mysterious young English woman named Joni Lascelles begins to ask questions that will unravel the past.

Fabulous countryside chiller – Hewson’s most accessible, suspenseful novel yet.
A young couple move to the country. The husband Miles commutes each day to the city, leaving his wife Alison to get to know the locals, many of whom are frankly not all that friendly. At weekends, Miles, oblivious to his wife’s concerns, loves to be ‘one of the lads’ in the pub. November comes, and with it the ancient bonfire festival. Alison could have been drunk, but she feels certain that she saw something terrible happen at the fire. And her husband was involved. Paranoia? Or a murder that an entire village has conspired in?

This 1912 classic of the Jewish-American immigrant experience was an instant critical and popular success. Its author arrived in Boston from Russia as a 12-year-old in the 1890s. Her moving narrative of Old and New World cultures was acclaimed by The New York Times as "a unique contribution to our modern literature and to our modern history."

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'[David Hewson] has taken what was television gold and turned it into literary gold' Telegraph

In a hushed Vatican reading room, the scene was shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with a gruesome calling card from the killer. Thus begins David Hewson's elegant and electrifying new novel. Set amidst a bizarre killing spree in modern Rome, it is a bewitching blend of history and drama, sensuality and suspense.

As the August heat takes Rome in its fiery grip, the news of two brutal murders holds the city in thrall. And as the media gathers and Vatican officials close ranks, a young detective is sent to the forefront of the case. Nic Costa is the son of an infamous Italian Communist, a connoisseur of Caravaggio , and a cop who barely looks his 27 years of age. Thrust into the heart of a killing spree that will rattle his city down to its ancient bones, Nic meets a woman who will soon dominate both his consciousness and his investigation.

A cool, beautiful professor of early Christianity, Sara Farnese was in the Vatican library on that fateful day, a witness to her colleague's strange outburst and death. But her role will become even more puzzling as more bodies are found: Each victim killed in a gory tableau of Christian martyrdom. And each victim had intimately known Sara, whose silence Costa cannot quite crack and whose carnal history becomes more lurid and unfathomable with every revelation.

Soon, a nightmarish chase is implicating politicians and priests -- while at the heart of the matter remains the woman Costa is both investigating and guarding. Wanting to believe in Sara's innocence, Nic still cannot turn his eyes from the truths he is uncovering. Even as the secrets of a woman, a killer and a city begin to unravel...with devastating consequences.

A beguiling mystery, a dazzling treat for the senses, and a fascinating tour of the streets and alleyways of Rome, Nic Costa's relentlessly suspenseful debut is a masterpiece of suspense fiction.?

In Rome's crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two carabinieri, insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been abducted. Detective Nic Costa intervenes - because Costa knows what the two officers don't: that in the police morgue, forensic pathologist Teresa Lupo is examining the mummified corpse of another girl, whose long-ago disappearance and death bear haunting similarities. What happens next, as Nic and Teresa are pulled into a dark drama of greed, lust, and sacrificial murder, will lead them to the most chilling discovery of all: in a pit of human darkness, where ancient malevolence still endures - and a very modern vengeance has begun....