VJ Books Presents Author David Hewson!
David Hewson (born January 1953) is a contemporary British author of crime and mystery novels. Hewson left school at seventeen and joined a local newspaper in the north of England. He was later a news, business and foreign reporter for The Times, and features editor of The Independent when it was launched in 1986. His first book Semana Santa, now reissued as Death in Seville, appeared in 1995 and was later turned into a movie with Mira Sorvino. Since then Hewson has written more than twenty different books in various locations around the world.
His series of modern crime stories featuring an ensemble of police officers in Rome led by the young detective Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead. He has also written a number of standalone novels.
Hewson is a board member of International Thriller Writers Inc. He lives near Canterbury in Kent..
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David Hewson Bibliography
Amsterdam Series
- The House of Dolls
- The Wrong Girl
- The Amsterdam of Pieter Vos
The Killing Series
- The Killing I
- The Killing II
- The Killing III
Nic Costa Series
- A Season for the Dead
- The Villa of Mysteries
- The Sacred Cut
- The Lizard’s Bite
- The Seventh Sacrament
- The Garden of Evil
- Dante’s Numbers (The Dante Killings, US)
- The Blue Demon (City of Fear, US)
- The Fallen Angel
- Dead Men's Socks (a Roman short story)
Stand- Alone Novels
- Carnival for the Dead
- Death in Seville
- The Cemetery of Secrets
- Writing: A User Manual
- Writing a Novel with Scrivener
- Epiphany
- Native Rites
- Saved
- Solstice
- The Promised Land
- The Flood
David Hewson Awards
- 1996 - W H Smith Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels
- 2008 - Hewson and narrator Saul Reichlin won the prize for best unabridged audiobook in the UK
- 2009 - American Library Association's best genre fiction reading list award for mystery
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