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.

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.

 

Native Rites — a Gothic English thriller

Now available for the first time as an ebook on Kindle

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Native Rites is a book about a set of people who will do whatever it takes to safeguard their own, precious, privileged existences. A young couple move to a new rural home. Miles commutes to the city each day leaving his American wife Alison to get to know the locals.

One September day they both visit the ancient bonfire ritual. Maybe Alison was drunk. Maybe not. But she felt sure something terrible happened, and that at least some of those close to her knew it too.

Is she paranoid? Or is there really some dark conspiracy happening in this small piece of paradise? Alison is determined to find out, whatever the cost, however much the truth may shatter her illusions about the cosy, comfortable green heaven she’s found herself in.

Native Rites asks how far we would go to defend our notion of Englishness. Answer: as far as we need.

The landscape in which the book is set is still glorious, and hopefully a little too remote for the house builders and sightless urban politicians of England to despoil it soon. And you can visit without fear of winding up in the middle of some secret, sacrificial rite. Take a copy of Rites to the area of east Kent, between Wye, Folkestone and Canterbury, and you will encounter strange commons called Minnis, and beautiful remote villages that look as if they haven’t changed for centuries. You may even bump into the occasional author too.