Лучшие произведения Дэвида Хьюсона

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...

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…

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...

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?..

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 him right back to Caravaggio himself and the reasons he had to flee Rome, all those centuries before .

Denmark is changing, shaking off its medieval past. War with Norway is on the horizon. And Hamlet - son of the old king, nephew of the new - becomes increasingly entangled in a web of deception - and murder.
Struggling to find his place in this strange new order Hamlet tries to rekindle his relationship with Ophelia - the daughter of Elsinore’s cunning spy master, a man with plots of his own. Hamlet turns for advice and support to the one person he can trust -- Young Yorick, the slippery, unruly jester, whose father helped Hamlet through a difficult childhood. And all the while the armed forces of Fortinbras, prince of Norway, start to assemble, threatening to bring down Elsinore forever.

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?

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.

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.

Allan Prime's eyes were as large as any man's Peroni had ever seen. He 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 film, Inferno, based on his epic work. But at the grand unveiling this priceless artefact is replaced by a macabre death mask of the film's star, Allen Prime. And minutes later, the leading actress, Maggie Flavier, is threatened before her attacker is shot.After footage of Prime's murder is shown over the internet, the Carabinieri are determined to take over the investigation, certain that a crazed Dante fan is behind the killing. Nic Costa and his team follow the movie to its next showing in San Francisco, to safeguard the remaining items and hoping to recover the stolen death mask. However, in California the mystery deepens, with confusing new clues about the deaths in Rome. With the Carabinieri and local authorities distracted by false leads, can Costa protect Maggie, find the truth and stop the killer - all before life imitates art?