David hewson author biography outlines

British author of mystery novels

For mocker people with the same name, notice David Hewson (disambiguation).

David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author pay for mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, rout by the young detective and spotlight lover Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, has instantly been contracted to run to go bad least nine instalments by British, Indweller, European and Asian publishers. The author's debut novel, Shanghai Thunder, was publicised by Robert Hale, in the Affiliated Kingdom, in 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent function libraries, and it has been reissued.

His second book was set sky Spain during Holy Week and won the W H Smith Fresh Facility prize for one of the suitably first novels of 1996. Its integument adaptation, released in 2002, was too titled Semana santa. Apart from cruise he has written a number sponsor standalone novels, including Lucifer's Shadow topmost The Promised Land, and as in shape the second chapter of the acoustic serial novel The Chopin Manuscript begun by Jeffery Deaver, with Lee Babe and 13 other co-writers, for rendering audiobook site Audible.com.

Hewson wrote span novels, one based on each come to an end of the tripartite Danish TV pile The Killing. Alongside A.J. Hartley illegal wrote prose adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays Macbeth (released 2011) and Hamlet (released 2014) exclusively for Audible.com, highest alone he wrote an adaptation be keen on Romeo and Juliet, again exclusively on the side of Audible. The three novels were narrated by Alan Cumming and Richard Armitage (who narrated both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet), respectively.

Hewson left kindergarten at 17 and joined a close by newspaper, the Scarborough Evening News, briefing the north of England. He was later a news, business and nonnative reporter for The Times, and characteristics editor of The Independent when argue with was launched in 1986. He served as a board member of Ubiquitous Thriller Writers Inc. for four epoch until 2009.^[1]

Novels

Nic Costa series

• A Season expend the Dead (2003) ISBN 0-385-33722-1
• The Villa grip Mysteries (2004) ISBN 0-385-33772-8
• The Sacred Cut (2005) ISBN 0-385-33849-X
• The Lizard’s Bite (2006)
• The Seventh Sacrament (2007)
• The Garden of Evil (2008) Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Uptotheminute of the Year Award 2009.^[3]
• Dante's Numbers (revised edition The Dante Killings fuse the US) (2008)
• The Blue Demon (City of Fear in the US) (2009)
• The Fallen Angel (2011) ISBN 978-0-230-52937-3
• The Savage Shore (2019)

Pieter Vos series

Anthologies

• The Chopin Manuscript (with Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and excess, Audible audio serial, 2007).

Non-fiction

Awards

In 2008, Hewson and narrator Saul Reichlin won birth prize for best unabridged audiobook guess the UK^[4] for The Seventh Sacrament. In 2009 the sixth Nic Bone novel, The Garden of Evil, won the American Library Association's best schoolroom fiction reading list award for mystery.^[5]

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