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"David Hewson’s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history" Tess Gerritsen
An ancient ritual. A modern-day crime.
A body is found in a peat bog near the banks of the Tiber River. Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes it was a young woman sacrificed long ago in an ancient Roman ritual. But she’s wrong. While the method of killing is ancient history, this murder happened very recently. The horror of these ritualistic killings is very much alive and it’s up to Nic Costa to get to the bottom of it.
“A riveting and fast-paced thriller . . . every character hides a dark secret that, like Rome's ancient mysteries, seems to lurk just beyond reach. A complex and satisfying mystery from a master plot-maker” Booklist
“Hewson . . . effortlessly keeps thrills coming a mile a minute” JEFFERY DEAVER, author of The Never Game
“Hewson’s inventiveness never flags” Sunday Times
David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times of London, the Sunday Times, and the Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels including his Rome-based Nic Costa series, which has been published in fifteen languages. The sixth book, The Garden of Evil, was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series, The Killing.
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