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Lucifer’s Shadow now available in French
Lucifer’s Shadow, the standalone book that also meshes in with the fourth Nic Costa novel, The Lizard’s Bite, is now available in French through my publisher in Paris, Cherche-Midi. The cover copy for L’Héritage vénitien runs…
Conspiration dans l’ombre des palais vénitiens : un formidable thriller historique !
1733 : Lorenzo Scacchi arrive à Venise pour travailler à l’imprimerie de son oncle. Très vite il est ensorcelé par les multiples sortilèges de la ville. Jusqu’au jour où son chemin croise celui d’une mystérieuse violoniste qui, dans l’ombre de Vivaldi, essaie de faire entendre sa voix. Voulant percer les mystères qui l’entourent, Lorenzo mène une enquête qui va le conduire au coeur de la communauté juive du ghetto de Venise.
2001 : Daniel Forster, venu cataloguer la superbe bibliothèque privée des Scacchi à l’ombre d’un tableau du Tintoret, La Tentation du Christ, découvre une partition anonyme, datée de 1733, objet de multiples convoitises. C’est le début d’une spirale d’intrigues, de meurtres et de secrets, dont les clés sont cachées dans l’histoire de la ville.
Avec ce roman salué par la critique internationale comme un des grands livres du genre, David Hewson mêle d’une main de maître suspense et érudition, multipliant fausses pistes et retournements à travers l’histoire religieuse et artistique de Venise.
A Sombra de Lucifer now out in Portugal
The Portuguese version of the standalone Italian novel Lucifer’s Shadow is now available. A Sombra de Lucifer is published by Campo das Letras.
De Engelen des Doods, Holland
The fourth Nic Costa novel, The Lizard’s Bite, is now available in translation in Holland. De Engelen des Doods (The Angels of Death) is, like the earlier books in the series, published by De Fontein.
The Villa of Mysteries: out now in Poland
The Polish version of The Villa of Mysteries is out now from Znak. Entitled Willa Misteriow, the books costs 28.80 zl. You can get more details here.
Now out in Thailand…
It’s difficult to keep up with foreign language translations - there are a lot, and they are always out of sync with UK and US because of the way publishing works. But I’m delighted to say I’m now out in Thai through Nanmee Books, one of Thailand’s principal publishers, who have just produced the first in the Costa series, A Season for the Dead.
Looks very nice too… can’t wait for an excuse to make my way back to Bangkok.
A review in Japanese
You have to love Google. They keep on adding all these buttons to the Firefox toolbar it’s impossible to stop yourself clicking them to see what happens. One of them just popped up the fact that someone in Japan has written about A Season for the Dead, which came out there last year through Random House Kodansha.
I don’t read Japanese, though I dearly wish I did, and at one point I was seriously thinking about setting the series that became the Nic Costa books in Japan (which is another story).
So what does this blog post say? Here is the Google Translate button rendition….
A Season for the Dead [devuitsudo] of the deceased [hiyuson] David Hewson Yamamoto and good meaning Kodansha publishers, Ltd. under season
Genius Riyuunosuke goes! As for murderous intent in right side of sugar handle sword one lucky occurrence transmission corporation
I’m focusing on the ‘Genius Riyuunosuke goes!’ part. Sounds great to me.