Reviews of Lucifer’s Shadow

Lucifer’s Shadow was judged one of the best crime/mystery novels of 2004 by the very influential US Deadly Pleasures magazine
Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
Good mysteries set in Venice are a growth industry: Every writer wants an excuse to do some research in that amazing, haunted city. And David Hewson’s new book is one of the best [...]

What people said about Saved

Robin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book, ‘David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete [...]

Reviews for the first Nic Cost novel

BookReporter.Com
‘…breathtaking… a dark delight, a story that one is compelled to read at one sitting while simultaneously wishing it will never end.’

Publisher’s Weekly

Outsized, eccentric characters, a complex story and an abundance of historical detail make this engrossing book more than just another cookie-cutter, religious-nut serial killer thriller.

Reviews of The Villa of Mysteries

Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail, Toronto writes…
If you missed A Season for the Dead, the first novel in this series set in modern Rome and featuring Inspector Leo Falcone, you’re in for a treat. This one’s even better and the cast of characters, some just touched on in the first book, is coming alive.
Hewson’s [...]

Reviews of The Sacred Cut

The third novel in the Nic Costa series has been made one of 2006’s Top 10 crime novels by Booklist, the influential magazine of the American Library Association. Booklist’s Bill Ott describes the book as ‘ a corruption-drenched Italian procedural that blends historical detail with contemporary cynicism’, and adds, All the historical detail gives the [...]

Reviews of The Lizard’s Bite

Publishers Weekly, October 2006, starred review
British author Hewson’s wonderfully complex and finely paced fourth crime novel (after 2005’s The Sacred Cut) to feature Roman detective Nic Costa and his unconventional partner, Gianni Peroni, finds the pair exiled to Venice, where they look into the case of glassmaker Uriel Arcangelo, who apparently killed his wife, [...]

The new Nic Costa ‘is the best yet’

The sixth Nic Costa novel, The Garden of Evil, is now out and winning rave reviews. The Daily Express describes as ‘even more gripping that 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 Bookseller buzzes the new Costa

It’s always nice to get good press back home. The UK’s premier publishing magazine The Bookseller has just produced its panel’s selection of book recommendations for the New Year. I’m pleased to say the sixth instalment of the series, The Garden of Evil, is on there with the accolade from Rodney Troubridge, fiction marketing planner [...]