David Hewson is the bestselling author of nineteen 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

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.

Douglas Preston, author of The Monster of Florence… One of my all-time favorite fictional detectives is David Hewson’s Nic Costa.

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.

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A debut thriller set in Spain

Holy Week in Seville… and a murderer is loose. Academic Maria Gutierrez can see something in his ways that the police are missing. But her insight does nothing to help her popularity in the force-and draws her to the attention of the killer.

The Angel Brothers, two controversial modern artists, are found dead in a southern Spanish city, in a killing that emulates a famous painting. Visiting academic Maria Gutierrez was supposed to be an observer to the police investigation. But her own past in the city soon puts her one step ahead of the cops… and in the killer’s sights.

Translated into many languages, and a continuing summer hit in Germany, Semana Santa was first published in 1996 and marked my world debut as a novelist with a dark and powerful tale set in a region of Europe most English language writers ignored at the time. The story was later made into a movie with Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez, marketed in the US as Angel of Death.

I’ve now rewritten the book, placing the story in real-life Seville and introducing some new elements, and will be republished as Death in Seville by Pan Macmillan in autumn 2010. Many thanks to all of you who went out and bought the reissue of The Cemetery of Secrets since it was the success of that revived book that helped make this possible.

Now available on audio
Thanks to my very enthusiastic audio publisher you can now get this book in the original edition on audio, beautifully narrated by Sean Barrett. I’m grateful to everyone at WF Howes for making this possible