From Rome to Copenhagen, Venice to Amsterdam, David’s storytelling powers have made him a leading voice in European crime and mystery fiction over the last thirty years. Here are his latest books. Subscribe to the free newsletter below to hear news of future titles, events and promotions.
Baptiste
The official prequel to the worldwide hit TV series
France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau.
Baptiste believes he's nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Mailloux gets. But as Mailloux awaits an appeal for clemency, he asks to see Baptiste, who's still haunted by the fact the girl's body remains missing. As the clock ticks towards execution hour, Baptiste begins to realise he may have made a terrible mistake...
Out in print, e-book and audio narrated by Tchéky Karyo from Orion.
The Borgia Portrait
The latest from Venice
When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he finds himself enmeshed in a perilous journey through the hidden history of Venice, and a search for an erotic portrait of Lucrezia Borgia, which has captivated men for generations.
After a body is discovered in a hidden crypt beneath the checkerboard courtyard of an ancient palazzo, other secrets are unearthed with it. Lying with the body is a document, a story of an episode in Casanova’s colourful life, and within it a set of clues that might lead to the location of the painting. But it quickly becomes apparent that Lizzie and Arnold are not the only ones interested in finding the painting.
The Medici Murders
A Times mystery of the month
1548, Lorenzino de Medici is assassinated by two hired killers who have been stalking him through the streets of Venice.
Today, Marmaduke Godolphin, British TV historian and a man few will miss, is found dead in the same place Lorenzino was murdered, stabbed by a stiletto, dead in the water of the canal.
Carabinieri Valentina Fabbri turns on retired archivist Arnold Clover to unpick the mystery and help solve the case. But the web of deceit and conspiracy Arnold begins to discover runs far deeper than anyone imagined.
The Venice of Arnold Clover
Go behind the scenes of the first in the Venice mystery series and follow in the footsteps of the doomed Lorenzino de Medici as he takes his last walk to the bridge of San Tomà.
Behind The Garden of Angels
Learn about the history and the places in David’s acclaimed historical novel and Venice during the Nazi occupation.
