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Hewson, David
David Hewson
David Hewson has written five novels, as well as several travel books. A weekly columnist for the Sunday Times, he lives in Kent, England, where he currently working on THE SACRED CUT (Delacorte Press 1/2006), his third novel featuring detective Nic Costa.
In an ancient burial ground on an island off Venice, a young woman's casket is pried open, an object is wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary adventure begins.
From the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the city's mystery and eroticism. An earnest young academic, Daniel has come for a summer job cataloguing a private collector's library. But when Daniel's employer sends him to buy a stolen violin from a petty thief, a chain reaction of violence and deception ignites.
Suddenly Daniel is drawn into a police investigation--and a tempest swirling around a beautiful woman, a mysterious palazzo, and a lost musical masterpiece dating back centuries. With each step he takes, Daniel unwittingly retraces a journey that began in 1733, when another young man came to Venice. And when, in this realm of intrigue and beauty, two lovers came face-to-face with a killer--and a mystery was born. Separated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal, and danger collide in David Hewson's dazzling novel. Sweeping us from the intrigue of Vivaldi's Venice to the gritty world of a modern cop, from the genius of a prodigy to the greed of a killer, Lucifer's Shadow builds to a shattering crescendo--and one last, breathtaking surprise.
Fran Hinkel - 08:16am Aug 3, 2005 PST(#1 of 2)
You can check out anytime you like...but you can never leave!
I am hearing good things about this book. I'm very interested in reading it, but I want to read Season For The Dead first.
Rik Shepherd - 07:04am Aug 26, 2005 PST(#2 of 2)
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise (Margaret Atwood)
I've just finished Lucifer's Shadow, and I have to say I'd have preferred it if Hewson had written two books. Because, really, he has written two books, but the chapters from the two books have been mixed together with, at least in the UK paperback, no visual indication that the action has jumped back or forward 350 odd years. This is sort of disruptive, and makes the book a lot more putdownable than it ought to be.
Mystery Net Community Mystery Books & Authors List of Authors List of Authors G - I Hewson, David
