Sigue a un joven e ingenioso detective que navega por las vibrantes y complejas calles de Roma. Cada caso que aborda lo sumerge más profundamente en las entrañas ocultas de la ciudad, revelando sus secretos y complejas redes criminales. Esta serie ofrece una emocionante exploración de la capital italiana a través del prisma de investigaciones convincentes. Es un viaje a la justicia, la naturaleza humana y el encanto perdurable de una de las ciudades más históricas del mundo.
While Sara Farnese pours over ancient texts in the silent Vatican reading room, a brutal murder takes place in a nearby church. Suddenly a crazed man enters the Vatican carrying a bloodied bag and walks up to Sara's desk. Soon she is inextricably linked to a series of horrific and cunning murders, each one representative of the death of a martyr of the Church.
In a hushed Vatican reading room, the scene was shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with a gruesome calling card from the killer. Thus begins David Hewson's elegant and electrifying new novel. Set amidst a bizarre killing spree in modern Rome, it is a bewitching blend of history and drama, sensuality and suspense. As the August heat takes Rome in its fiery grip, the news of two brutal murders holds the city in thrall. And as the media gathers and Vatican officials close ranks, a young detective is sent to the forefront of the case. Nic Costa is the son of an infamous Italian Communist, a connoisseur of Caravaggio , and a cop who barely looks his 27 years of age. Thrust into the heart of a killing spree that will rattle his city down to its ancient bones, Nic meets a woman who will soon dominate both his consciousness and his investigation. A cool, beautiful professor of early Christianity, Sara Farnese was in the Vatican library on that fateful day, a witness to her colleague's strange outburst and death. But her role will become even more puzzling as more bodies are found: Each victim killed in a gory tableau of Christian martyrdom. And each victim had intimately known Sara, whose silence Costa cannot quite crack and whose carnal history becomes more lurid and unfathomable with every revelation. Soon, a nightmarish chase is implicating politicians and priests -- while at the heart of the matter remains the woman Costa is both investigating and guarding. Wanting to believe in Sara's innocence, Nic still cannot turn his eyes from the truths he is uncovering. Even as the secrets of a woman, a killer and a city begin to unravel...with devastating consequences. A beguiling mystery, a dazzling treat for the senses, and a fascinating tour of the streets and alleyways of Rome, Nic Costa's relentlessly suspenseful debut is a masterpiece of suspense fiction.? From the Hardcover edition.
The acclaimed author of "A Season for the Dead" pens this "atmospheric follow-up steeped in dark ritual" ("Publishers Weekly"). Rome detective Nic Costa goes up against a bizarre and deadly cult to save an innocent young girl.
When Detective Nic Costa arrives on a murder scene, he isn't prepared for what he finds--nor for the ambush that causes his only witness to vanish. As the first murder leads to more grisly slayings, he uncovers a trail of deception that might lead to the U.S. government. Original.
On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve.
Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Nic Costa, Gianni Peroni and Leo Falcone are rebuilding their lives. But they team up once again when faced with the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a missing young boy's T-shirt... found in a small museum exhibit displaying supposed evidence of communication from souls in Purgatory.Soon they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving both the ancient cult of Mithras and a sinister ossuary, the House of Bones...
The sixth novel in Hewson's riveting Italian crime series
The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial new film, Inferno. But at the grand unveiling this priceless artifact is replaced by a macabre death mask of the film's star, Allan Prime. Nic Costa and his team follow the movie to its next showing in San Francisco where confusing new clues suggest that there is more behind the killing than a crazed Dante fan.
Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake a group of dead students, a murdered couple, a cryptic message and a kidnapped child. Now, the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered, seemingly by a strange young man dressed as an Etruscan god, detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved. The Blue Demon appear to have returned - and planning, under the leadership of the fanatical Andrea Petrakis, to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks on the city. As Costa and his team start to dig deeper into the past, they find that there are still too many unanswered questions – and much more to the history of the Blue Demon than anyone wants to admit...
Family tragedy, family legacy, family secrets - Detective Nic Costa faces his hardest case yet.
Nic Costa has been sent undercover to the Calabrian coast to bring in the head of the feared 'Ndrangheta. But the deception is taking its toll. Out of their depth in a lawless part of Italy, Costa and his team find themselves pitched as much against one another as the mob. Is Nic getting too close to the enemy for comfort?
