The new Costa novel is hailed as ‘the best yet’
The sixth Nic Costa novel, The Garden of Evil, is now out and winning rave reviews. The Daily Express describes it as ‘even more gripping than its predecessors’.
Margaret Cannon, in the Toronto Globe & Mail, says the series is one of her favourites, and adds, ‘The Garden of Evil is the best book so far in the Costa series, and that’s saying a lot. But Hewson takes his plotting here a giant step further than in the usual cop/chase story.’
It was Book of the Month in this month’s Choice Magazine which said: ‘David Hewson is on top form with this novel, taking his readers on a gripping journey through the streets of the Eternal City’. Crimesquad, which makes David author of the month, gives the book a five-star review and says, ‘This is a heady concoction of classic crime novel elements, perceptive characterisation and illuminating historical detail, all set in exotic locations and brilliantly told by a master storyteller.’
The next Rome book makes an early entrance
Fans of Nic Costa in the UK can now expect a second book during 2007 after the sellout of the latest title, The Garden of Evil, in the first week of publication. The next in the series, Dante’s Numbers, will now go on sale through Pan Macmillan in the UK on October 3, 2008, to be followed in April 2009 by the US edition from Bantam Dell.
The novel begins in Rome, at the world premiere of a movie based on The Divine Comedy. After one of the leading actors is murdered, and another attacked, the story then moves to San Francisco for the remainder of the book. The narrative covers some well-known and less familiar locations in Italy and California, from the tiny Cinema dei Piccoli in the park of the Villa Borghese in Rome to the districts of Cow Hollow and the Marina near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
You can read my thoughts on the origins of the book, and view some photos of the locations, in its section on this site.
