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Read the first Nic Costa for free
For a limited time only, you can now read A Season for the Dead, the first in the Nic Costa series, for free online. This offer ends on October 15, 2008… but make sure you sign up for the davidhewson.com newsletter to get news of future promotions including free book giveaways.
A Season for the Dead is set in Rome in the heat of summer and introduces Nic Costa as a young, optimistic detective faced with a crime that reaches deep into the heart of the Vatican. Bookreporter declared the book… ‘breathtaking… a dark delight, a story that one is compelled to read at one sitting while simultaneously wishing it will never end.’
Dante’s Numbers: the seventh Nic Costa novel
Dante’s Numbers, the new Costa book, is now beginning to appear around the world. Newly available in South Africa it launches in the UK in October and in the US next March. The story begins in the park of the Villa Borghese where a glittering audience has assembled for Rome’s cinema event of the year, a movie of Dante’s Inferno, one that has come to be surrounded by controversy.
Then tragedy strikes out of the blue, and the starry affair ends in violence and confusion… and the loss of the death mask of Dante Alighieri that Costa’s team were supposed to guard.
Watch the new video on Dante’s Numbers
The seventh Nic Costa novel, due out in the UK in October 2008 and in March 2009, is the subject of a new video on Blip.tv and Youtube. You can hear the author talking about the background to the book, the first Costa novel that travels outside Italy, and how the story moved to California.
To view the Blip.tv link click on the image or click read more to watch on this site. To see the smaller Youtube version, suitable for slower connections, please click here.
The sixth Costa is hailed as ‘the best yet’
The sixth Nic Costa novel, The Garden of Evil, is winning rave responses from the critics, including coveted starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association. PW describes the work as ‘this dark jewel of a thriller’. Booklist’s Bill Ott declares, ‘Arturo Pérez-Reverte has long set the gold standard for mixing history, mystery, and modern life into literary stews of mouthwatering flavor and incredible subtlety, but it’s time to agree that Hewson now shares that position—and is on the verge of claiming it outright.’
Where in the world is…?
Well, not Wally, but Nic Costa and his colleagues. Most of the time they are in Rome, but in very specific areas, usually real ones. In a little while, though, they will be travelling to California. Want to know exactly where they go in the books?
It’s easy enough to track them through the site’s Google maps feature. Some of the books now have their own map pages which will show you the real-life locations in the books, from the talking statues of The Garden of Evil to the underground sites used in The Seventh Sacrament.
Watch the new video on The Garden of Evil
The sixth Nic Costa book is now the subject of a twelve minute video at Blip TV. Just click on the link below to watch it now. A shorter version is also available on Youtube.
The Seventh Sacrament wins top audio prize
Saul Reichlin
The fifth Nic Costa novel, The Seventh Sacrament, has won the new Audible Sounds of Crime prize for the unabridged crime audiobook of the year. The award, which was based on votes from readers, was announced at the Bristol CrimeFest conference at the weekend.
I’m really honoured and flattered to get such a plaudit for the work, and delighted too that I quite rightly share it with Saul Reichlin, right, the series narrator, whose astonishing performance of the books is surely one of the main reasons for their popularity in audio.