David Hewson is the bestselling author of twenty two books published in more than twenty languages. His popular Costa contemporary crime series is now in development for a series of TV movies in Rome. 

What they're saying

The Telegraph on The Killing… David Hewson… has taken what was television gold and turned it into literary gold.  

Daily Express… Carnival For The Dead is a reminder that we are in the hands of one of the most accomplished crime writers in this country.

Tess Gerritsen… Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Fallen Angel weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. 

Peter James… Hewson is one of our finest crime writers.  Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.  No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me — nor made it seem so sinister.

Linwood Barclay on The Blue Demon… Packs more twists and action into its brilliantly plotted pages than half a dozen other thrillers combined.  

Jeffery Deaver…Hewson is a daunting talent — a writer who is a master stylist. 

Steve Berry…David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist.

Lee Child… (Dante’s Numbers)…is easily the best yet in a really terrific series.

Macbeth: A Novel

Available now exclusively on Audible worldwide… a stunning new audiobook interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic, narrated by Alan Cumming and written by David Hewson and A.J. Hartley. Listen to an extract.

Scrivener

Writing a Novel with Scrivener is David’s personal guide to creative writing with the hottest new software on the block now revised for the new Windows version.

Available with instant delivery for Kindle it takes you from outline to manuscript and then delivery to publisher or finished ebook format.

 

The Killing: Think you know how it ends? Think again

The most highly-praised TV crime series in recent years comes to the printed page in David’s reworking of The Killing as an epic crime novel.

On the outskirts of Copenhagen, a young girl is found raped and murdered. Detective Sarah Lund cancels her move to Sweden to take charge of the case, alongside Jan Meyer, the man who was supposed to replace her. The two soon they find themselves embroiled in Danish politics and internecine fighting within the police, while Nanna Birk Larsen’s parents struggle to cope with the weight of their loss.

A new take Søren Sveistrup’s TV masterpiece, The Killing takes the familiar story into the realm of the novel, with new insights, new twists and a shocking fresh ending that will astonish diehard Lund fans and newcomers alike.

Carnival for the Dead

A standalone outing for one of the Costa series’ most popular characters. It’s February, and Carnival time in Venice. Teresa Lupo is looking for her beloved bohemian aunt Sofia who has mysteriously disappeared. The puzzle deepens when a letter reveals a piece of fiction in which both Sofia and Teresa appear and characters who once seemed fiction now turn out to be real.

This adventurous journey into the dark history of Venice makes Teresa’s first solo departs from the style of the Costa series and takes the doughty Roman pathologist into new territory, in the dark byzantine alleys and piazzas of Carnivale. The Express says, ‘Carnival for the Dead is a reminder that we are in the hands of one of the most accomplished crime writers in this country’.