INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (4148,1,'2010-06-17 08:38:36','2010-06-17 08:38:36','I love Anthony Bourdain. He makes wonderful TV programmes about food – frank and personal and often very funny. Also I discovered, entirely by chance, his legendary New York brasserie <a href=\"http://leshalles.net/brasserie/\" target=\"_blank\">Les Halles</a> long before anyone had heard of the guy. How an American with only distant French ancestry managed to create a restaurant so intensely Gallic is beyond me.\n\nBourdain writes the way he does TV – eccentrically. He has a <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/12/anthony-bourdain-war-fast-food\" target=\"_blank\">wonderfully entertaining article in today’s Guardian</a><em></em> about how he’s trying to steer his toddler daughter away from junk food with black propaganda: whispering evil tales about Ronald McDonald and stuff. In it he declares…\n<blockquote>But if you are literally serving shit to children, then I\'ve got no problem with a jury of your peers wiring your nuts to a car battery and feeding you the accumulated sweepings of the bottom of a monkey cage. In fact, I\'ll hold the spoon.</blockquote>\n<!--more-->\n\n<em>Literally</em>. What does ‘literally’ mean? Oh come on. You know. It means <em>literally. </em>In real life. As actually happens.\n\nYet time and time again you’ll find this word used wrongly, as it is here, to describe something that clearly does <em>not</em> happen. If you read the rest of the article you understand that Bourdain is making the point that fast food hamburgers are made of very low quality meat. He isn’t making the clearly ludicrous charge that they are actual excrement.\n\nSo no one is ‘literally’ serving shit to children and if you take this sentence ‘literally’ it makes a very worthwhile argument sound more than a little hysterical.\n\nThis is such a very common misuse of the word that you could, I guess, argue it’s acceptable. I don’t buy that. It’s loose and ineffective writing. If Bourdain had written…\n<blockquote>But if you’re serving shit to children…</blockquote>\n…he’d have made his point more succinctly for me.','Today’s word to watch: literally','','publish','open','closed','','todays-word-to-watch-literally','','','2011-01-28 08:03:34','2011-01-28 08:03:34','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/2010/06/17/todays-word-to-watch-literally/',0,'post','',0),(4154,1,'2010-06-19 13:00:15','2010-06-19 12:00:15','It’s a scorching summer in Rome. Sara Farnese sits in the Vatican Library. The streets are deserted. A man walks towards her. He is familiar. He is carrying a blood-stained bag…\nStefano’s left arm, the one holding the weapon, swept the table, swept everything on it, the precious volume of Apicius, her expensive notebook computer, down to the hard marble floor with a clatter. He said in a loud voice that was half crazy, half dead, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.’\nAs 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 begins to see a pattern in the killings that follow, murders that seem to mimic the grisly martyrdoms of the early Church.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s notes, photos and maps for A Season for the Dead at Places[/stextbox]\n\nRacked by personal anxiety over his dying father, Costa starts on the long journey to uncover the truth about these horrific crimes, whatever the cost, whatever the pain. From the inner quarters of the Vatican, desperate to hide a financial embarrassment, to the poorer, squalid bed-sits where the city’s immigrants try to eke out a living, Costa takes on any who crosses his path, however influential, however damaging the cost to his career.\n\nShunned as the son of a Communist, treated with suspicion by many of those around him, Costa relies on his own intelligence and integrity to find a way into the life of the mysterious Sara Farnese, and unlock the key to the case. But it’s a journey that comes with a terrible risk, and a cost he can never foresee.\n\nReviews\n\nBookReporter.Com\n\n‘…breathtaking… a dark delight, a story that one is compelled to read at one sitting while simultaneously wishing it will never end.’\n\nPublisher’s Weekly\n\nOutsized, eccentric characters, a complex story and an abundance of historical detail make this engrossing book more than just another cookie-cutter, religious-nut serial killer thriller.\n\nWashington Post\n\nA Season for the Dead, like The Da Vinci Code, is a thriller that takes an unflattering look at the Catholic Church, but it is better written and more sophisticated than Dan Brown’s phenomenal bestseller… The books differ, too, in that Hewson, far more than Brown or most thriller writers, has a serious concern for character.\n\nHewson gives us lyrical moments (during a storm, “the city looked like the bowl of some fantastic fountain designed by a drunken Bernini”) and bizarre moments, as when the killer, in clerical robes, awaiting a victim, listens on headphones to Cannonball Adderley’s great recording of “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” the point being that he has none. Amid revelations of police corruption, unexpected parentage, incest and betrayal, Hewson concocts a climactic scene in a little church called San Luigi dei Francesi…\n\nLit by candles, Caravaggio’s painting of the martyrdom of Saint Matthew gazes down from the wall (”the naked madman murdering the prone Matthew on the ground, sword raised, ready to deliver the final blow”). One crazed character “stumbled forward, colliding with terrified bodies in the darkness, yelling every obscenity he could think of, screaming his father’s name, begging the black maw of the nave to give up his body for vengeance.”\n\nLet me tell you, this is great stuff. A Season for the Dead, if sometimes blissfully over the top, is intelligent entertainment… Praise be!\n\nDallas Morning News\n\nMr Hewson’s suspenseful, fascinating mystery has an appealing detective and many complex characters on both sides of the law. Twisting and turning through Italian history and art, Nic Costa’s first case gives the serial murder mystery a new look.\n\nChattanooga Times Free Press, Tennessee\n\nThis enthralling story has it all: believable heroes, villains and even minor characters, exotic setting, history, religion, gruesome violence and steamy sex. Best of all, it’s so seamlessly put together that time flies as you flip pages to get to the end. Atmospheric and captivating, Hewson’s novel has all the elements needed for the complete thriller-reading experience. This is one not to miss.\n\nRocky Mountain News\n\nThere will be inevitable comparisons between this novel and The Da Vinci Code because of the Italian setting, the Vatican connection and the Caravaggio association. But A Season for the Deaddoes not expose artistic or religious frauds nor attempt to rewrite history. This is, instead, a complicated and engrossing mystery so compelling that it begs for a one-night reading.\n\nThe good news is that this is only the first novel to star Nic Costa. Hewson said in a recent interview that he created Costa as “a good guy, an unfinished, slightly naive, innocent person … a character who was in transition.” In a proposed six-book series, he will follow the policeman and his cohorts through other adventures as they attempt not only to solve crimes but deal honestly with a society that is not always honest itself.”Most of my books aren’t whodunits; they’re more whydunits,” Hewson explained. And that is just what makes them so fascinating.\n\nStar Tribune, Minneapolis\n\nThis atmospheric thriller begins in the Vatican library and winds around the ancient streets and churches of Rome. Detective Nic Costa is working on a series of gruesome murders that mimics the martyrdom of early Christian saints – and seems to revolve around the mysterious Sara Farnese, a professor of Early Christian history. Costa finds himself drawn to her cool beauty as well. Hewson’s absorbing series debut features a memorable cast of fully human characters, imagines the distorted mind of a serial killer and takes a chilling glimpse into the Vatican’s less-than-godly dealings with the secular world.\n\nLibrary Journal\n\nIt’s a suspenseful thriller, cleverly plotted with great characters and a real look at the back streets of Rome and the darker streets of the Vatican.\n\nOklahaman\n\n… a delicious and compelling view of the public art of Rome and the private intrigue of the Vatican. Recommended for most popular fiction collections; blooming Costa fans will be pleased to know that Hewson plans a series of novels featuring the detective.\n\nMystery Lovers.Com\n\nA fast-paced tour of Rome with a nice combo of serial killer thriller and Vatican conspiracy novel.\n\nDeadly Pleasures\n\nWhat makes Hewson worth reading is not only the well-realized setting, but also, to Americans, the exotic European characters, especially the two Italian cops. The action is well paced, the plot nicely twisted, the characters often chameleon-like, and the setting is definitely fascinating for many readers. Overall, this is a well written mystery with some real surprises at the end.\n\nBirmingham Post\n\nDavid Hewson… has written mysteries set abroad before now, especially Spain, and is one of several crime writers opting for an Italian setting these days. On this form, Hewson is certainly the leader of the pack.\n\nPublishing News\n\nThe first in a promising Italian crime series set in Rome … Hewson’s way with the Roman milieu is as cutting edge as his adroit narrative.\n\nSunday Mercury\n\nAn oddball detective mistrusted by his bosses, a beautiful woman, the elegant backdrop of Rome and sinister goings-on in the Vatican all add up to a new spin on the serial killer tale…All of this works not simply because of the frenetic plot but because Hewson has two beguiling, fascinating characters to hold our interest… (he) has a lightness of touch, an eye for the macabre and an understanding that you can’t beat the old fatal attraction between an all-too-human cop and a beautiful woman.','','','publish','open','closed','','4154','','','2010-06-19 13:00:15','2010-06-19 12:00:15','',3302,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=4154',10,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4170,1,'2010-06-19 13:00:17','2010-06-19 12:00:17','It’s hot, unbearably hot, in a way that makes people wonder if the world isn’t changing fundamentally for the worse. Back in 1996 when this book was first started, that seemed an unusual idea. Today no-one would question it.\n\nSolstice is a book about man’s neglect of his own planet and a group of people who decide to take matters into their own hands. A core of hardened eco-terrorists have taken control of a Cold War weapon developed in secret by the Reagan administration. It gives them the power to turn the focus of the sun’s radiation on any part of the world they choose.\n\nMichael Lieberman, a renegade scientist who knows the leader of the gang from his academic work in the past, is reluctantly force to take on the role of their opponent, trying to stop their deliberate attempt to force an environmental disaster on some of the world’s major cities.\n\nSolstice presaged the emergence of terrorists who were willing to sacrifice their own lives for no other end except to harm others. It also foresaw the use of the then new technology of the internet to foster havoc among agencies grounded in the practices of another era. This is a dystopian image of a damaged future, one that persuaded Time Warner to take me on as a future techno-thriller writer in the vein of Michael Crichton. But that just wasn’t me… though I still have fond memories of this book.\n\nIndependence Day reimagined for grown-ups. A smart synthesis of science fiction and planet-in-peril cliffhanger. Sunday Times\n\nA remarkably well-written thriller… Hewson’s science is both complex and authentic. And-perhaps even more impressive for a techno-thriller-so are his characters. Kirkus Reviews\n\nRichly imagined… as high-tech concepts go they don’t get much hotter than this. Michael Cordy, author of The Miracle Strain','','','publish','open','closed','','4170','','','2010-06-19 13:00:17','2010-06-19 12:00:17','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=4170',16,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4177,1,'2010-06-19 13:00:17','2010-06-19 12:00:17','In a dilapidated glass furnace off the island of Murano the fire races out of control. Two people are dead, and for Leo Falcone, exiled to Venice, with Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni, the question is whether he’s dealing with one murderer or two.\n\nFor Costa, life in Venice is more perplexing on other fronts too. His relationship with Emily Deacon is deepening, and she is missing the law enforcement work she’s abandoned for a different, quieter career. Slowly, the sluggish world of the lagoon begins to enfold the Romans in its sinister grip, as they try to untangle the complex family ties of the tragic Arcangeli family on a private island falling into ruin.\n\nThe Lizard’s Bite is in part a companion piece to the earlier standalone novel, The Cemetery of Secrets, bringing several characters from that story into the tale of murder, betrayal and deceit which Costa and his colleagues must unpick in the heady, close heights of the Venetian summer.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for this book at Places[/stextbox]\n\nThe Venetian police turn to the Romans to wrap it up quickly and cleanly, in time for the English tycoon, Hugo Massiter, to complete his purchase of the island. To Falcone, this seems a small matter, a domestic murder of little more than intellectual interest. But as the summer heat takes hold, and the Romans’ investigations begin to grate with a local force more interested in tidy solutions than awkward questions, the island’s spell begins to cast a wider net.\n\nReviews\n\nPublishers Weekly starred review\n\nBritish author Hewson’s wonderfully complex and finely paced fourth crime novel (after 2005’sThe Sacred Cut) to feature Roman detective Nic Costa and his unconventional partner, Gianni Peroni, finds the pair exiled to Venice, where they look into the case of glassmaker Uriel Arcangelo, who apparently killed his wife, Bella, then committed suicide. Instead of coming to the foreordained conclusion higher authority demands, Costa and Peroni determine, “We’re no longer trying to understand the means Uriel Arcangelo used to kill his wife. But why, how and with whom the late Bella appears to have conspired to kill him.” An urbane and wealthy Englishman who wants to buy the Isolo degli Arcangeli glassworks becomes an important suspect. Hewson is particularly strong on characterization, revealing each personality subtly and naturally as he or she reacts to the intricate plot developments. Newcomers as well as series fans will be enthralled.\n\nBookreporter, Joe Hartlaub\n\nDavid Hewson may well be the finest mystery writer of our time. In my humble opinion, he’s also one of our best contemporary writers, period. There are elements of Agatha Christie, Graham Greene and William Shakespeare in his work, but when you sit down and crack the spine of A SEASON OF THE DEAD or THE VILLA OF MYSTERIES, what you have is all and uniquely Hewson.Hewson peppers THE LIZARD’S BITE with a number of interesting – and fascinating – factoids about places and subjects that compel the reader to find out more on their own. But this common thread (among others) through Hewson’s novels is not performed by rote. Think instead of a tightrope walker who performs his work daily for the same audience but introduces a new, and jeopardous, element every time. That’s a Hewson novel. Very highly recommended.\n\nMargaret Cannon, Toronto Globe and Mail\n\nIf you haven’t already discovered this brilliant series featuring Nic Costa and a cast of Roman detectives, you have a treat in store. The Lizard’s Bite is the fourth book in the set and, like the other three, it is superb. Hewson likes to combine history, art and detection, and he delivers them all with different focuses for different books. The Lizard’s Bite is about glass. Followers know that Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni have been exiled from Rome and sent to Venice. Only a Roman would find that a trial. Leo Falcone, meanwhile, is assigned to the Carabinieri’s art-theft division. Everyone converges on the Veneto in summer, a blistering season of sirocco winds and dry, burning heat. In Murano, the glassmakers spin the exquisite spirals and colours that have been the trademark of Venetian glass for centuries.One stifling night, Uriel Arcangelo tends the family furnace. His job is to have the molten glass ready for the glassblowers in the morning. But more than glass is burning in the Arcangelo furnaces, and the terrors of the night turn into death and destruction, exposing a secret that can destroy the entire family. Hewson manages to tuck in plenty of art secrets and thrills, and some nods to the fad for Da Vinci Code-style mysteries. This is another great novel by a fine author.\n\nThe Literary Review\n\nHewson’s very enjoyable Italian mysteries are cleverly worked out and sharply written, and his take on the secretive city is much more uncomfortable and sinister than Leon’s (Donna Leon’s Through a Glass, Darkly, which is reviewed previously). In his hero’s eyes it is like ‘a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go’.\n\nNew York Times\n\nThe mises-en-scene of David Hewson’s elaborate Italian-based novels are always so flamboyantly operatic that I keep expecting the principals to break out in song…. told with dashing style, in atmospheric set pieces that capture the theatrical grandeur of Venice and the pockets of miserable squalor behind its splendid facade.\n\nBoston Globe\n\nThis complex novel, a journey to hell and back, is leavened with food and humor and propelled by suspense and action. The atmospherics are extraordinary — Hewson does Venice every bit as well as Tony Hillerman does New Mexico. The ending is particularly satisfying, like watching a multistage finale to a spectacular fireworks display.\n\nDenver Post\n\nLayered into the story are some complex relationships among members of the withdrawn and insular Arcangelo family, clinging to their ancient art in a world overrun by tourists looking for cheap trinkets, as well as a stalled love affair between Costa and former FBI agent Emily Deacon. And it is complicated further by a rich, powerful and amoral Englishman (from an earlier non-series book, Lucifer’s Shadow), who holds the key to the whole mystery but can’t be touched by the Venetian police. Venice itself, a “beautiful graveyard of a city,” as one of the characters calls it, is always the heart and soul of this rich, complex and thoroughly bewitching book.\n\nToronto Sun\n\nThis fourth book in David Hewson’s original series… again features Roman detective Nic Costa and his colleagues. On a tiny island near Murano, the glass furnace of the Arcangeli family is dangerously overheating. Uriel Arcangelo is killed by a savage fire, which almost consumes the furnace. His death is deemed an accident. But when his wife’s body is found, the Roman detectives are asked to conduct their own investigation in time for English tycoon Hugo Massiter to finish buying the Arcangeli island.Massiter is on his way to becoming a modern-day Doge in Venice, in terms of power and influence, and although the detectives suspect he is involved in the deaths at the glass factory, he seems untouchable. The densely plotted story needs to be carefully followed, but the drama and characters make it an absorbing read.','The Lizard&#039;s Bite','','publish','open','closed','','the-lizards-bite','','','2010-06-19 13:00:17','2010-06-19 12:00:17','',3302,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=4177',7,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4180,1,'2010-06-19 13:00:18','2010-06-19 12:00:18','Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then one sunny day in July his wife, Miriam, and their young son, Ricky, were savagely beaten to death. Bierce was convicted of the murder of his family. Languishing on Death Row twenty-three years later, he still has no memory of the incident.\n\nWith his execution only seconds away, he is suddenly, inexplicably, released. But the world has moved on without him and the city he knew has become a strange and dangerous place.\n\nReturning to the only home he knows, Bierce meets Alice Loong – a tough, half Chinese woman who can guide him through the confusing new world of the twenty-first century. But it soon becomes clear that Alice is hiding dark secrets of her own.\n\nAfter the horrifying discovery of a corpse nailed to a post outside Bierce’s house, the pair go on the run, pursued by dangerous enemies. Bierce now knows for certain that he was released to be the pawn in some vicious game he doesn’t understand. He knows, too, that he still doesn’t remember what happened the night his wife and son died. And that, perhaps, he is not as innocent as he’d like to think.\n\nThe Promised Land was new territory for me, a first person tale that is compelling sequential in nature, an experiment in narrative that is half dream, half nightmare, begging to be read in a single sitting.\n\nIt’s a story about feeling old, lost and frightened. And like the Costa series, it’s fundamentally a story about a human being trying to find his way home.','','','publish','open','closed','','4180','','','2010-06-19 13:00:18','2010-06-19 12:00:18','',3320,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=4180',14,'nav_menu_item','',0),(4186,1,'2010-06-19 13:00:18','2010-06-19 12:00:18','Nic Costa and team step outside Italy for the first time…\n\nIn the gorgeous grounds of Rome’s Villa Borghese park the glitterati of the movie world are gathered for a world premiere. A legendary Italian movie director has come out of retirement to create a blockbuster based on Dante’s Inferno. But, as Nic Costa and his colleagues attempt to guard the precious collection of historic artefacts attached to the event, the premiere is disrupted by tragedy and a horrific murder.\n\nIs a disgruntled admirer of Dante taking his revenge on the cast of the movie? Or are more mundane motives, the dubious financing of the film through criminal connections, to blame? Before Costa and crew have the chance to find out they are removed from the inquiry and find themselves sidelined by the Carabinieri.\n\nBut when the movie premiere shifts to California and the iconic surroundings of the Marina in San Francisco his inspector, Leo Falcone, manages to bring them along to work on the investigation from the sidelines. And as life begins to resemble art, Costa and his friends come to realise that the inspiration behind these crimes may be more recent than the Carabinieri suspect. Resonating between Dante’s famous classic and Hitchcock’s masterpiece movie Vertigo,Dante’s Numbers (The Dante Killings in the US) is an elegant, original thriller destined to break new ground — and has already won the praise of some of the most famous authors in the world.\n\nWhat some other authors think of Dante’s Numbers\n\nJeffery Deaver\n\nThe return of Nic Costa is a true cause for celebration! Dante’s Numbers is a literate, page-turning tale that finds our hero—one of the most appealing in crime fiction — zipping between two of the most iconic cities in the world: Rome and San Francisco. Hewson is a daunting talent — a writer who is a master stylist, who respects the audience’s intelligence and who effortlessly keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute.\n\nLinwood Barclay, author of No Time for Goodbye\n\nThis is a tour de force from one of the most original thriller writers around. With Dante-inspired villainy, Hitchcock obsessives, and an abundance of imaginative twists and turns David Hewson pulls out all the stops. Unmissable.\n\nDouglas Preston, author of The Monster of Florence and Blasphemy\n\nOne of my all-time favorite fictional detectives is David Hewson’s Nic Costa, and Dante’s Numbers brings Nic for the first time to American shores. From the opening scene of murder and mayhem at a movie premiere to the final, mind-blowing surprise, Dante’s Numbers is an elegant, clever, and terrifying tale of intrigue and murder involving Dante’s first circle of Hell and Hitchcock’s classic film Vertigo. An outstanding novel.\n\nSteve Berry, best-selling author of The Venetian Betrayal\n\nDavid Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist. Dante’s Numbersis politically wise, multi-dimensional, and psychologically intuitive. Action braids suspense on nearly every page, creating a reader’s delight from beginning to end. A superb effort by a master storyteller.\n\nDavid Morrell, author of First Blood and Creepers\n\nDante’s Numbers is action-packed suspense at its smartest and most gripping. Transplanting Nic Costa and his fellow Italian detectives to the dizzying world of Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a master stroke from a brilliant author. It’s impossible not to be swept up in the memorable, compelling world that is David Hewson’s specialty.\n\nDavid Corbett, Edgar-nominated author of Blood of Paradise\n\nDavid Hewson is a marvel, writing riveting suspense with a wistful grace. Dante’s Numbersmight very well be his best, a white-knuckle joy that’s smart, poignant, and acidly fun as Hollywood meets Dante via Italy’s notoriously over-the-top slasher films, known as the gialli. I got caught up in the story instantly, learning much, laughing too, all the way to the heart-pounding, heart-wrenching, heartbreaking end. If only all page-turners were this intelligent, witty and human.\n\nReviews\n\nPublishers Weekly\n\nHewson’s fine seventh crime novel to feature Nic Costa (after The Garden of Evil) takes the Italian police detective to San Francisco, where aging, ailing director Roberto Tonti is preparing for the premiere of his first major film in 20 years, Inferno. Based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the $150-million blockbuster, which was filmed in Tonti’s native Italy, is to be the capstone of the director’s career.\n\nIn San Francisco, the Questura (Costa’s outfit) and the carabinieri—the former charged with security for Dante artefacts in a tie-in exhibit, the latter with security for the actors—pursue separate, often conflicting agendas after a series of bizarre incidents, including a priceless artifact’s theft, a movie star’s kidnapping and an attack on another star that results in death. The SFPD also gets into the act as more murders plague the film’s debut. A convoluted plot, eccentric characters and numerous sinister connections to Hitchcock’s Vertigo all contribute to the suspense.\n\nIn the Times Record News, Wichita, Amy Hawkins writes…\n\nIn the seventh in his series featuring the suave Italian detective Nic Costa, David Hewson takes his leading man to San Francisco to track down spectacularly crafted crimes set against the backdrop of a film premiere in Dante’s Numbers. Hitchcock-type intrigue fuses with modern crime investigation as Nic and his two colleagues track down the missing death mask of Dante, preclude the infiltration of a historical exhibit at Golden Gate Park, and deduce the killer’s MO and identity – all while dodging the San Francisco team and the Carabinieri, their Italian counterparts, also on the case.\n\nNot one to gloss over Costa’s romantic nature, Hewson slowly reveals a delicious subplot involving Nic and Maggie Flavier, the star of the murder-embroiled film. Hewson leads you on an exciting journey, tumbling back and forth from San Francisco to Rome, wrapping it up in a classic Hitchcock climax that literally made me gasp – out loud. Like a whitewater rafting trip, over the rapids one minute and cruising along calmer waters the next, you find yourself catching your breath after each chapter for the next rush. Flawless suspense is intertwined with Dante’s eternal intrigue.\n\nIn Bookreporter Joe Hartlaub hailed the book as ‘the author’s best to date’, writing….\n\nDante’s Numbers is arguably the most accessible of Hewson’s works, which is not to say that the plot is necessarily a simple one. Nor does Hewson fail to inform while entertaining. Indeed, the ins and outs of film financing, motion picture history, the differences between a producer and a director, and a little-known but centuries-old financial version of the game of “chicken” are all explored here, against the backdrop of one of the world’s most interesting cities and, of course, the dip and swirl of romantic relationships. All of this is done within the context of an elaborate murder mystery, and exquisitely so.\n\nIn Mystery News Harriet Stay gives the book five stars and writes….\n\nI always have a special feeling when I begin a new book by a familiar author, especially one like David Hewson, who has never disappointed and at times created unexpected surprises. This is no exception. Hewson propels the reader from page one through a twisted whodunit, unraveling cryptic clues, converging with potential suspects, enjoying a romp beyond the cable cars and Union Square, touching the technology world of overnight billionaires, all the while still maintaining himself as a magician with the English language. This is a top-notch, thrilling ride.\n\nBooklist\n\nHewson never loses the reader’s attention, and for fans of this outstanding series, the latest chapter in the interlocked lives of Costa and friends… is as delicious as ever.\n\nMargaret Cannon in the Toronto Globe &amp; Mail\n\nThe seventh of Hewson’s series featuring Nic Costa of the Italian State Police is as smart and sophisticated as the other six. Hewson always uses some bit of Roman or Italian history or literature to focus his modern crime novels, and this is one of his best. Maybe that’s because the central theme is built around the work of Dante, or maybe it’s because Hewson moves the action, but not the mood, from Rome to Los Angeles, the centre of glitz and glamour. Dante and movies? If you think it won’t work, think again.\n\nWinston-Salem Journal\n\nWith his carefully prepared stories, larded with tasty historical tidbits and spread out across the series’ sumptuous Roman setting, David Hewson has created a growing clientele of satisfied readers. His handsome, slightly rumpled detective, Nic Costa, has led the reader through a feast of multilayered plot concoctions in the past six novels. The seventh in the series will be equally pleasing to his fans’ palates.\n\nWhen this series left Italy, it did not leave good writing behind; Hewson’s stories are simply well-done police procedurals in an exotic package.\n\nRichmond Times-Dispatch\n\nSending his cast to America is a masterful touch from Hewson, who works diligently to keep his series from becoming stale… As illusion fuses with reality and builds to a shattering climax, Hewson keeps his readers grounded in what’s real. Rich in characters, complex of plot, Dante’s Numbers is a worthy entry in an erudite, entertaining series.\n\nEdmonton Sun\n\nDavid Hewson’s Rome-based trio of Italian detectives, Nic Costa, Leo Falcone and Teresa Lupo, move their operations temporarily to America in this new novel. A multimillion dollar movie is being shot in Rome, based on Dante’s masterpiece, Inferno, with an international cast which includes two American movie stars, Allan Prime and Maggie Flavier. The Italian premiere is accompanied by an exhibit of the poet’s priceless death mask, but a macabre intervention showing Prime’s kidnapping and murder brings the detectives into the case. As the movie premiere moves to San Francisco, they are along to protect other artifacts. Eerie coincidences turn up involving Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Vertigo. Other murders and an obsessive killer heighten the suspense. Another Nic Costa winner.\n\nThe Mystery Gazette\n\nThe Dante connection in Italy is one of the best police procedural opening segues in years… fans of the series will enjoy Costa and his mates as they travel the mean streets of San Francisco.\n\nClaire Emsberger in the Sullivan County Democrat\n\nAllow me simply to announce this eighth of David Hewson’s Rome suspense novels—the third I’ve reported on in the last two years, again featuring the brilliant and soulful detective, Nic Costa. 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My digital images now go back ten years and begin with the pictures I took when I was beginning to research the first Nic Costa book, <em> A Season for the Dead. </em>There are now 3,800 or so images stored here and in various web photo locations. Phew...\n\nA lot are of churches in Rome. Here are a few favourites that have made their way into various books. Lovely places all. And if you\'re thinking... \'The Pantheon isn\'t a church, it\'s a pagan temple\' you\'re mistaken. It was originally. 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I\'ve been quoted in the media twice this week about book theft and, hatemail and abusive comments on the web site apart, there are other consequences.\r\n\r\nHere\'s one... <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1TMYUHMWX7UBN/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R1TMYUHMWX7UBN\" target=\"_blank\">someone posting a one-star \'review\' of <em>The Fallen Angel</em> on Amazon UK</a>. They don\'t even claim to have read the book . They just want to give it one star so the ratings go down and have their say which is...\r\n<blockquote>Hewson was complaining in The Metro about eBook piracy, yet the Kindle edition of this book is almost the same price as the hardback. He needs to wise up a bit and get a grasp on reality. Paying more for a couple of MB of data, that costs little to publish or distribute, than for a real, printed, book, is a rip-off. Before complaining about \"thieves\", he should put his own house in order.</blockquote>\r\nIs that a book review? Is the poster even aware that authors write books, they don\'t publish or price them? What exactly is the house that I\'m supposed to be putting in order?\r\n\r\nNor is this just directed at me. The \'reviewer\' concerned calls himself Disgruntled. <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/member-reviews/ADZWHTPSAL2W3/ref=cr_cm_rdp_pdp_see_all?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview\" target=\"_blank\">If you follow the link to all three of his \'reviews\' here you\'ll find this...</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-22-at-08.30.14.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8230\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-22 at 08.30.14\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-22-at-08.30.14-640x655.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"649\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAll one-star \'reviews\'. All written on the same day. Not one of them claiming to have read the book. And note that the other two are moaning that the ebook is more expensive than the print version (a point I have some sympathy with). But his gripe about mine is \'it\'s almost the same price\'. In other words it\'s cheaper, by 60p, plus the 20 per cent VAT on ebooks which the publisher is swallowing too (which actually makes it a lot cheaper from the publisher and author point of view). And still he moans. So it\'s not really about price at all. It\'s about justifying theft any way possible, as that last comment on Clarkson clearly shows.\r\n\r\nAmazon\'s review system is a bit of a joke, I know. But really -- getting marked down over pricing by an individual who hasn\'t even read the book... Someone at Amazon HQ should be thinking about this. You can\'t review an app on Apple\'s app store if you haven\'t bought it. Why doesn\'t Amazon bring in the same rule for items, not just books but everything, on its own site?','The pirates\' revenge: one star on Amazon','','inherit','open','open','','8226-revision-7','','','2011-04-22 10:58:21','2011-04-22 09:58:21','',8226,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/8226-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7944,1,'2011-04-03 18:34:35','2011-04-03 17:34:35','The ninth Costa book, <em>The Fallen Angel</em>, is out in the US at the end of this month, and there\'s one other unannounced project that will be coming out very soon too. So I thought I\'d pop over for two of my favourite writing events.\r\n\r\nThe first is the fantastic <a href=\"http://www.thrillerfest.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Thrillerfest</a> from ITW which is in New York from July 6-9 at the Grand Hyatt next to Grand Central Station. This year\'s headline name at the event is the wonderful RL Stine, the most disarming and modest multi-million selling author I\'ve ever met, and someone whose constant support helped get ITW off the ground in its infancy too.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be appearing at Thrillerfest and also giving a talk at <a href=\"http://www.thrillerfest.com/craftfest-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Craftfest</a>, its teaching side event, about using Word and Scrivener to shape and structure a novel manuscript. If you want to meet thriller authors, learn about publishing, and hear writers talk about their craft in the heart of Manhattan then this is the event for you.\r\n\r\nIn September I will be back for the unique institution that is <a href=\"http://www.bouchercon2011.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bouchercon</a>, a moving feast of mystery, crime and thriller writing that this year will be in St Louis. No idea what I\'ll be doing there yet but you\'ll find me among the throng -- and at Bouchercon there is <em>always</em> a throng, I guarantee.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','This summer\'s US appearances','','publish','open','open','','this-summers-us-appearances','','','2011-04-03 18:34:35','2011-04-03 17:34:35','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7944',0,'post','',0),(7910,1,'2011-03-23 10:42:21','2011-03-23 10:42:21','<a href=\"http://www.crimeinthecourt.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7911\" title=\"wpc639d411\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wpc639d411-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" /></a>I\'ll be joining a growing bunch of writers at the new premises of that wonderful London bookstore Goldsboro on June 21 at 1830 for the inaugural <a href=\"http://www.crimeinthecourt.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crime in the Court</a> evening. Do come along if you can make it -- Goldsboro are quite an institution these days and it should be a very sociable get-together\r\n\r\nThere\'s an interesting story behind the premises too, as you can see if you follow the link.','London event: Crime in the Court, June 21','','publish','open','open','','london-event-crime-in-the-court-june-21','','','2011-03-23 11:01:33','2011-03-23 11:01:33','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7910',0,'post','',0),(5264,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:01','2010-08-07 10:52:01','Almost all of the books listed here are widely available in a variety of media including audio. For details of individual titles please contact my audio and large print publisher WF Howes.\n\nYou can buy titles, and listen to previews, at Whole Story Audio. You will also find my audio books available for download on Audible UK and Audible US.\n\nPlease note that all of my audio books are unabridged.','','','publish','open','open','','5264','','','2010-08-07 10:52:01','2010-08-07 10:52:01','',4354,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5264',32,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5265,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:04','2010-08-07 10:52:04','For all book inquiries please contact Carole Blake of Blake Friedmann.Carole@blakefriedmann.co.uk\n\nFor film and TV inquiries please contact Conrad Williams at Blake Friedmann.Conrad@blakefriedmann.co.uk\n\nBlake Friedmann Literary, Film &amp; TV Agency\n122 Arlington Road\nLondon NW1 7HP\n\nTelephone: 020 7284 0408\nFax: 020 7284 0442','','','publish','open','open','','5265','','','2010-08-07 10:52:04','2010-08-07 10:52:04','',4354,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5265',30,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5266,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:07','2010-08-07 10:52:07','Both The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet were conceived as written as audio thrillers, designed to be heard more than read. But after they came out and hit the airwaves through Audible and iTunes we were inundated with people who wanted to buy them as a book.\n\nThere was, when we had just Chopin, a problem. These were designed for audio, and a little short for conventional publishing – 60,000 words or so. But then along came the sequel The Copper Bracelet and we had the makings of a book.\n\nThat’s what Watchlist is. A book version of the two stories, connected novellas mirroring the story we first told through Alfred Molina’s wonderful narration. The book was published by Vanguard Press in January 2010.','','','publish','open','open','','5266','','','2010-08-07 10:52:07','2010-08-07 10:52:07','',3390,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5266',24,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5267,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:09','2010-08-07 10:52:09','Blame Jeffery Deaver. This is all his fault. A couple of years ago Jeff came up with the bright idea that a bunch of members at ITW could raise funds to keep the organisation going by writing an audio thriller. You know what that is, don’t you? No. Nor did we. Jeff said, ‘I’ll write chapter one and the closing chapter. You lot just produce the chapters in between. Audible can publish it. And we can get some great actor to read the lines.’\n\nWe indulged him of course. Jeff’s such a nice guy you have to. So I wrote a second chapter taking Jeff’s start in eastern Europe to Rome. Then a bunch of others — too many to mention here — came in and we wound up with a scary fast-moving thriller called The Chopin Manuscript. That great actor Alfred Molina came in and did a voiceover so astonishing it sent shivers down my spine. Then it went on to win the audio equivalent of an Oscar, Audiobook of the Year. Note that was the audiobook of the year — not a genre thing. Amazing.\n\nSo Jeff comes back a while later and says, ‘Let’s do it again!’\n\nWe won a prize. We broke new ground. Most of all we had fun. Who’s going to say no?\n\nThe result is a sequel to The Chopin Manuscript. It’s called The Copper Bracelet. It’s different. Better. More focused I think — we were really testing our feet the first time round. More scary and hellishly contemporary too, a global conspiracy thriller that is straight out of the headlines and with a compelling mystery at its heart: what is the secret of the Copper Bracelet? And yes Harold Middleton and his team of volunteers return to put their lives on the line to find out.\n\nOnce again it’s an audio novel available only by download from Audible and iTunes. If you’re in the US head off over to www.audible.com/copper. In the UK go to www.audible.co.uk/copper. There you’ll find the first chapter for free and other freebies including an audio interview in which Jeff, Lee, Jim Fusilli and I discuss the project. You’ll have to register but you won’t need a credit card.\n\nAs before, Jeff wrote that first chapter, setting us up for a wild ride around the globe. Those who follow him are, in order of appearance, Gayle Lynds, me, Jim Fusilli, John Gilstrap, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, David Corbett, Linda Barnes, Jenny Siler, David Liss, P.J. Parrish, Brett Battles, Lee Child, Jon Land and James Phelan. Once again Alfred Molina narrates. Jim Fusilli held the whole thing together as editor too, and Jeff wraps up the project with a skill that still leaves me breathless.\n\nIt’s worth pointing out that this is not a collaboration in a conventional sense. We didn’t have plot meetings or storylines. This was a relay race in which the baton was simply passed from one runner to the next, with no one knowing where this would all end up. It’s a great testament to Jim and Jeff that the two of them manage to keep an astonishingly tight rein on such a free-wheeling project. And as always I’m flattered to be part of a fundraiser for the excellent organisation that is ITW.','','','publish','open','open','','5267','','','2010-08-07 10:52:09','2010-08-07 10:52:09','',3390,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5267',23,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5268,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:13','2010-08-07 10:52:13','The first Thriller anthology, edited by James Patterson, was a phenomenal success for the then-fledgling ITW organisation and helped pay a lot of ITW’s bills in the early days.\n\nIt was seeing the success of Thriller that helped push ITW into taking a brave and unique decision — to drop all membership fees for eligible author members. As the board member who suggested this innovation I’m somewhat biased as to whether it’s a good idea or simply mad. But I do think the idea of a writers’ organisation that lives on its wits and creativity, not a tax on its members, is rather appealing. So here comes Thriller 2, this time edited by the redoubtable Clive Cussler, and published once again by the excellent Mira.\n\nThe list of authors on board with short stories for this edition includes Jeffery Deaver, Kathleen Antrim, Sean Chercover, Lisa Jackson, Tim Maleeny, Philip Margolin, Carla Neggers, RL Stine, Ridley Pearson… and lots more. Oh, and me.\n\nMy story is called The Circle and I can reveal that…\n\n	is not set in Rome\n	does not feature any of my regular characters\n	has absolutely no historical antecedents\n	is pretty much unlike anything else I’ve ever written (no, there are no vampires or aliens — it’s not that off the wall)\n\nIt was enormous fun to get the chance to write something different. Thanks to everyone in ITW, Tim Maleeny, in particular, for extending the opportunity to me.','','','publish','open','open','','5268','','','2010-08-07 10:52:13','2010-08-07 10:52:13','',3390,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5268',22,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5269,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:16','2010-08-07 10:52:16','Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a priceless, previously-unknown manuscript by Frederic Chopin. Within the notes of this work, which was originally found and hidden by the Nazis during World War II, lies a secret that has left death in its wake – and could kill tens of thousands more.\nWinner 2007 Audiobook of the Year\nThe Chopin Manuscript is a unique collaboration among 15 distinguished international thriller writers who came together to create a single audiobook with each author contributing a chapter to the ongoing story.\n\nJeffery Deaver conceived the characters and the setting and put the plot in motion with the first chapter. Then I take the threads of Jeff’s opening chapter opening section to produce a second which spins the story out of its opening in Warsaw to Rome, and sets it on the way to a climax in the US. From there the story was turned over to thirteen authors – including Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Joseph Finder, S. J. Rozan, and P. J. Parrish – who each wrote a chapter that propelled the story along. Along the way the plot took twists and turns as each author lent his or her own imprint on the tale. Characters were added as the action moved around the world — and the stakes got higher and higher. The book wrapped with Jeff writing the final two chapters bringing The Chopin Manuscript to its explosive conclusion.\n\nThe plot unfolds like this: Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a priceless, previously-unknown manuscript by Frederic Chopin. Within the notes of this work, which was originally found and hidden by the Nazis during World War II, lies a secret that has left death in its wake – and could kill tens of thousands more. As Middleton races to unlock the mystery of the manuscript, he is accused of murder, pursued by federal agents and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat comes from a man known only as Faust – a shadowy figure from Middleton’s past.\n\nThe Chopin Manuscript was the world’s first audio thriller, delivered serially, read beautifully by that great actor Alfred Molina. Readers received a new installment of 2-3 chapters every Tuesday, beginning September 25th. with the final instalment delivered on November 13th. It proved one of the fastest-selling audio titles of 2007.','','','publish','open','open','','5269','','','2010-08-07 10:52:16','2010-08-07 10:52:16','',3390,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5269',25,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5270,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:19','2010-08-07 10:52:19','Over the last through years, largely thanks to my membership of International Thrillerwriters, I’ve been able to collaborate with some great writers around the world. You can read about details of a few here, including The Chopin Manuscript, which won the audiobook of the year award and its new sequel, The Copper Bracelet as well as Thriller 2.','','','publish','open','open','','5270','','','2010-08-07 10:52:19','2010-08-07 10:52:19','',3263,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5270',21,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5271,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:22','2010-08-07 10:52:22','We have a range of publicity shots available for free. The shots are by Mark Bothwell. You can browse the gallery by clicking the photograph below. This will take you to Flickr where you can choose the size of the image you’d like to download. Please credit the photographer.','','','publish','open','open','','5271','','','2010-08-07 10:52:22','2010-08-07 10:52:22','',4354,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5271',31,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5272,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:25','2010-08-07 10:52:25','Now available as a multi-format eBook for Sony, Kindle and other readers. Only $4.95 without DRM. Click here for details.\n\nPalo Alto, northern California, 1975\n\nA child goes missing in northern California. Twenty years later, people want to know why, and the past begins to unravel for a group of former friends who thought they’d escaped it forever.\n\nSeattle 1995\n\nA group of students retire to a remote house to experiment with LSD. One, Michael Quinn, kidnaps a child. A body is found. And for the rest of the group the battle to escape justice begins.\n\nTwenty years on, with Quinn about to be unexpectedly released from jail, a mysterious young Englishwoman, Joni Lascelles, arrives in the city, asking questions about the kidnapping, unravelling the past for those who thought it was long dead. The horror of the past comes to engulf the present, leaving no-one untouched by its power. Turn by turn, shifting effortlessly between two eras twenty years apart, the story is played out with relentless compulsion to an overwhelming climax.\n\nEpiphany was my second book. It was completed it in the summer of 1995 while he was still waiting for Semana Santa to be published. At the time he was spending a lot of journalistic time visiting San Francisco and Seattle. The contrast between the two – California with its lost innocence, and Seattle with its hard, uncompromising Nineties materialism- was what provoked the book. It’s a complex, ambitious piece of work.\n\nI’m still pretty pleased with this work. I’ve written nothing quite like it since and, to be honest, it’s pretty damn scary. I’ve now taken a scalpel to the original and revised it from top to bottom. It’s been republished as an eBook on Smashwords for $4.95, in a variety of different formats for modern ereaders and PCs. This is very much an experiment on my part. I’d like to see what happens if an established author puts backlist out there this way. I’ll be telling you how it goes in the blog too.\n\nJohn Fowles on acid. The Guardian\n\nThe atmosphere of mystery, menace and guilt is sustained with great skill, building tension to a seismic explosion as ghoulish characters squirm to escape a relentless past returning to destroy them. Daily Telegraph\n\nDavid Hewson has an altogether wider range of literary and cultural reference than most thrillers. Impressive… Esquire','','','publish','open','open','','5272','','','2010-08-07 10:52:25','2010-08-07 10:52:25','',3263,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5272',20,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5273,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:28','2010-08-07 10:52:28','It’s hot, unbearably hot, in a way that makes people wonder if the world isn’t changing fundamentally for the worse. Back in 1996 when this book was first started, that seemed an unusual idea. Today no-one would question it.\n\nSolstice is a book about man’s neglect of his own planet and a group of people who decide to take matters into their own hands. A core of hardened eco-terrorists have taken control of a Cold War weapon developed in secret by the Reagan administration. It gives them the power to turn the focus of the sun’s radiation on any part of the world they choose.\n\nMichael Lieberman, a renegade scientist who knows the leader of the gang from his academic work in the past, is reluctantly force to take on the role of their opponent, trying to stop their deliberate attempt to force an environmental disaster on some of the world’s major cities.\n\nSolstice presaged the emergence of terrorists who were willing to sacrifice their own lives for no other end except to harm others. It also foresaw the use of the then new technology of the internet to foster havoc among agencies grounded in the practices of another era. This is a dystopian image of a damaged future, one that persuaded Time Warner to take me on as a future techno-thriller writer in the vein of Michael Crichton. But that just wasn’t me… though I still have fond memories of this book.\n\nIndependence Day reimagined for grown-ups. A smart synthesis of science fiction and planet-in-peril cliffhanger. Sunday Times\n\nA remarkably well-written thriller… Hewson’s science is both complex and authentic. And-perhaps even more impressive for a techno-thriller-so are his characters. Kirkus Reviews\n\nRichly imagined… as high-tech concepts go they don’t get much hotter than this. Michael Cordy, author of The Miracle Strain','','','publish','open','open','','5273','','','2010-08-07 10:52:28','2010-08-07 10:52:28','',0,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5273',18,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5274,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:30','2010-08-07 10:52:30','Read this book for free now on Scribd\nNative Rites is a book about a set of people who will do whatever it takes to safeguard their own, precious, privileged existences. A young couple move to a new rural home. Miles commutes to the city each day leaving his American wife Alison to get to know the locals.\n\nOne September day they both visit the ancient bonfire ritual. Maybe Alison was drunk. Maybe not. But she felt sure something terrible happened, and that at least some of those close to her knew it too.\n\nIs she paranoid? Or is there really some dark conspiracy happening in this small piece of paradise? Alison is determined to find out, whatever the cost, however much the truth may shatter her illusions about the cosy, comfortable green heaven she’s found herself in.\n\nNative Rites asks how far we would go to defend our notion of Englishness. Answer: as far as we need.\n\nThe landscape in which the book is set is still glorious, and hopefully a little too remote for the house builders and sightless urban politicians of England to despoil it soon. And you can visit without fear of winding up in the middle of some secret, sacrificial rite. Take a copy of Rites to the area of east Kent, between Wye, Folkestone and Canterbury, and you will encounter strange commons called Minnis, and beautiful remote villages that look as if they haven’t changed for centuries. You may even bump into the occasional author too.','','','publish','open','open','','5274','','','2010-08-07 10:52:30','2010-08-07 10:52:30','',3320,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5274',19,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5275,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:33','2010-08-07 10:52:33','Read this book for free now on Scribd\nI thought my journalism days were behind me. But sometimes life has a habit of turning things around in ways you least expect. In December 2005 I was in Rome researching what was to become The Garden of Evil. Out of the blue I took a phone call which revealed that the large London university Imperial College had very big designs on the area where I was lucky enough to live.\n\nThe next ten months saw an extraordinary battle by ordinary people pitched against an army of well-paid professional developers trying to turn some of the most beautiful – and protected – countryside in England over to the bulldozer. They were just ordinary citizens appalled by what was being planned, in secret and with the covert support of our own public representatives. The most extraordinary part of all is… we won. After concerted local opposition and a string of revelations on save-wye.org , the web-site I set up as a public forum to discuss Imperial’s plans, the project collapsed.\n\nYou can read this amazing saga in full for free at the foot of this article. I wrote this story because there are many other people out there who are desperate to know how Wye won where so many others failed. The answer is through luck, determination and some very single-minded people. So in some ways this isn’t a story that far from fiction at all… though every last word is true, even though I occasionally had to pinch himself when reminded of that fact.\n\nSAVED is a full length account of the true story of this campaign from its opening to close. It’s not hagiography or triumphalist, because this may be a short-lived victory. Nor does it seek to hide the mistakes that were made along the way, because one important thing we learned during this fight was that honest and openness were often the most powerful weapons the Wye campaigners had – and sometimes the only ones.\n\nI’m grateful to everyone who helped with the Wye campaign, in particular my colleague in the site, Justin Williams, without whom this story would not have had such a satisfactory ending.\n\nWhat people said about Saved\n\nRobin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book, ‘David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.”‘\n\nJonathon Porritt, the well-known environmentalist who is now Founder Director of Forum for the Future, writes, ‘This is a fascinating book, full of insights into the workings of local politics, new, web-based ways of campaigning, different environmental tactics, and institutions as powerful as they are unaccountable.\n\n‘As a result of a wonderfully effective campaign, this little corner of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent is safe for now. But as the author himself points out, the agents of the kind of wholly unsustainable development that is still eroding our countryside will never give up and never go away. With local democracy in such a state of disrepair, in so many parts of the land, many more battles of this kind will still need to be fought.’\n\nShaun Spiers, chief executive, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said, ‘Imperial College’s science park plan for Wye was in essence a smash and grab operation, designed to let the university cash in on its greenfield AONB landholding around a beautiful Kent village.\n\nThat it failed was largely thanks to the website save-wye, the brief but gripping history of which is chronicled in this book. We in CPRE were delighted to offer the local campaigners help and support.\n\nThere is much in Saved to worry countryside campaigners, but also much to cheer them. The role of the local council is depressing, as is the failure of most local media to question the developer’s official line.\n\nYet the book also shows that schemes such as Wye Park can be defeated, however impressive their official backing, and that journalism and the democratic process in their truest forms can triumph when the established media and body politic have gone bad.’\n\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, has kindly contributed the foreword to the book.\n\nIn it he writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','','','publish','open','open','','5275','','','2010-08-07 10:52:33','2010-08-07 10:52:33','',3320,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5275',17,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5276,1,'2010-08-07 10:52:36','2010-08-07 10:52:36','Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then one sunny day in July his wife, Miriam, and their young son, Ricky, were savagely beaten to death. Bierce was convicted of the murder of his family. Languishing on Death Row twenty-three years later, he still has no memory of the incident.\n\nWith his execution only seconds away, he is suddenly, inexplicably, released. But the world has moved on without him and the city he knew has become a strange and dangerous place.\n\nReturning to the only home he knows, Bierce meets Alice Loong – a tough, half Chinese woman who can guide him through the confusing new world of the twenty-first century. But it soon becomes clear that Alice is hiding dark secrets of her own.\n\nAfter the horrifying discovery of a corpse nailed to a post outside Bierce’s house, the pair go on the run, pursued by dangerous enemies. Bierce now knows for certain that he was released to be the pawn in some vicious game he doesn’t understand. He knows, too, that he still doesn’t remember what happened the night his wife and son died. And that, perhaps, he is not as innocent as he’d like to think.\n\nThe Promised Land was new territory for me, a first person tale that is compelling sequential in nature, an experiment in narrative that is half dream, half nightmare, begging to be read in a single sitting.\n\nIt’s a story about feeling old, lost and frightened. And like the Costa series, it’s fundamentally a story about a human being trying to find his way home.','','','publish','open','open','','5276','','','2010-08-07 10:52:36','2010-08-07 10:52:36','',3320,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5276',16,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5278,1,'2010-08-07 10:54:56','2010-08-07 10:54:56','I never wanted overnight success, which is just as well the way things turned out. What I sought most from writing was the chance to tell a range of stories over an extended period of time. A career that allowed me free rein to explore the kinds of material that have always interested me.\n\nI know I get logged as a mystery, crime or thriller author these days, but I honestly haven’t seen myself this way. What I try to write is intelligent, popular fiction, the kind of book that’s been around for centuries. Some of my favourite authors – Robert Graves, MR James, Somerset Maugham, to name a few – managed to do this long ago without the need for labels. Today they seem inevitable but I don’t really try to fit into any particular genre myself.\n\nLiterature is, in a large part, about the frailty of humankind, and our sad realisation of those weaknesses in ourselves, and how they contrast with the beauty and self sacrifice that sits alongside the bleakness in us all. Crime is a way of representing that dichotomy in our natures, which is why writers have used it as a focal point for their stories for centuries. Does that makeHamlet a crime story? Or Treasure Island? I don’t know and frankly I don’t much care. Stories should speak for themselves, and I think they do.\n\nBefore Nic Costa came on the scene my career was something of a rollercoaster ride as I tried to identify what exactly I added up to as an author. I veered from thriller sci-fi in Solstice to rural gothic in Native Rites. And where exactly books like Epiphany and The Cemetery of Secrets fit I’ve no idea. Anyway, for the sake of record you can browse my back catalogue here. Not all of these books are in print, however, though most are available on audio. You can still usually find them second hand on places like Amazon if you’re interested.','','','publish','open','open','','5278','','','2010-08-07 10:54:56','2010-08-07 10:54:56','',3263,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5278',13,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5279,1,'2010-08-07 10:54:57','2010-08-07 10:54:57','David Hewson’s novels have been translated into a wide range of languages, from Italian to Japanese, and his debut work, Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino.\n\nDavid was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and left school at the age of seventeen to work as a cub reporter on one of the smallest evening newspapers in the country in Scarborough. Eight years later he was a staff reporter on The Times in London, covering news, business and latterly working as arts correspondent. He worked on the launch of the Independent and was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times for a decade before giving up journalism entirely in 2005 to focus on writing fiction.\n\nSemana Santa won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for one of the best debut novels of the year in 1996 and was later made into a movie starring Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez. Four standalone works followed before A Season for the Dead, the first in a series set in Italy. The titles are published in numerous languages around the world including Chinese and Japanese… and Italian.\n\nHe has featured regularly on the speaker lists of leading international book events, including the Melbourne and Ottawa writers’ festivals, the Harrogate Crime Festival, Thrillerfest, Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime. He has taught at writing schools around the world and is a regular faculty member for the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference in Corte Madera, California, where he has worked alongside writers such as Martin Cruz Smith and Michael Connelly.\n\nIn 2006 he launched a campaigning web-site save-wye which was instrumental in a successful battle to prevent one of the largest environmental threats to the countryside of Kent in southern England. His non-fiction book on the campaign to defend Wye from development, Saved, was published in May 2007. David lives close to Wye, Kent.','','','publish','open','open','','5279','','','2010-08-07 10:54:57','2010-08-07 10:54:57','',0,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5279',28,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5280,1,'2010-08-07 10:54:58','2010-08-07 10:54:58','[contact-form]','','','publish','open','open','','5280','','','2010-08-07 10:54:58','2010-08-07 10:54:58','',0,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5280',33,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5281,1,'2010-08-07 10:57:59','2010-08-07 10:57:59','Since the first Nic Costa title, A Season for the Dead, appeared in 2003 the series has grown a book a year, and spread to some twenty different languages around the world including Japanese, Thai, French, Spanish and Italian. It has won multiple plaudits including, most recently the American Library Association award for Best Mystery of 2008 for the sixth book, The Garden of Evil.\n\nI never expected any of this, trust me. In fact when I wrote A Season for the Dead I honestly believed my career as a writer might well be over.\n\nAfter I wrote Lucifer’s Shadow – now rereleased in the UK as The Cemetery of Secrets – I found myself out of contract with my then publisher. Lucifer was the first book I ever set in Italy. I loved writing it, and edited the final draft in a little apartment in Rome, simply because I felt like being in Italy, though not in Venice where it was set.\n\nI’d visited Rome a couple of times before as a journalist. But on this occasion I was there for a whole week and the place took my breath away. I determined to set the next book there, enrolled at a language school to study Italian and tried, as best I could, to see the city through the eyes of Romans.\n\nNic Costa came out of knowing what I didn’t want to write: a conventional crime character. In other words someone who was melancholic, alcoholic, middle-aged, dour, divorced…. you get the picture. Instead I wanted someone full of integrity and enthusiasm, young, a little naive, someone who was looking for something. Enter the young agente who’s grown steadily over the years to become the character he is today, now surrounded by a mature and familiar cast of regulars.\n\nThat was the serendipitous path that led to A Season for the Dead. With my customary sense of great timing I managed to deliver to my then publisher on September 11, 2001. He rejected it quite harshly as ‘unpublishable’. A few months later I was in a new home, the enthusiastic hands of Pan Macmillan, with a new editor, Maria Rejt, who told me what I wanted to hear: this wasn’t a standalone novel at all, it was a new series.\n\nAnd here we are. Which, for those of you trying to write yourselves, demonstrates two eternal facts about books. First, this can be a very odd business indeed. And second, they don’t grow on trees. You have to go out there and chase them down. Books are about life, and if you don’t experience much of that you’ve got no stories to tell.','','','publish','open','open','','5281','','','2010-08-07 10:57:59','2010-08-07 10:57:59','',3263,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5281',2,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5290,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:02','2010-08-07 10:58:02','Nic Costa and team step outside Italy for the first time…\n\nIn the gorgeous grounds of Rome’s Villa Borghese park the glitterati of the movie world are gathered for a world premiere. A legendary Italian movie director has come out of retirement to create a blockbuster based on Dante’s Inferno. But, as Nic Costa and his colleagues attempt to guard the precious collection of historic artefacts attached to the event, the premiere is disrupted by tragedy and a horrific murder.\n\nIs a disgruntled admirer of Dante taking his revenge on the cast of the movie? Or are more mundane motives, the dubious financing of the film through criminal connections, to blame? Before Costa and crew have the chance to find out they are removed from the inquiry and find themselves sidelined by the Carabinieri.\n\nBut when the movie premiere shifts to California and the iconic surroundings of the Marina in San Francisco his inspector, Leo Falcone, manages to bring them along to work on the investigation from the sidelines. And as life begins to resemble art, Costa and his friends come to realise that the inspiration behind these crimes may be more recent than the Carabinieri suspect. Resonating between Dante’s famous classic and Hitchcock’s masterpiece movie Vertigo,Dante’s Numbers (The Dante Killings in the US) is an elegant, original thriller destined to break new ground — and has already won the praise of some of the most famous authors in the world.\n\nWhat some other authors think of Dante’s Numbers\n\nJeffery Deaver\n\nThe return of Nic Costa is a true cause for celebration! Dante’s Numbers is a literate, page-turning tale that finds our hero—one of the most appealing in crime fiction — zipping between two of the most iconic cities in the world: Rome and San Francisco. Hewson is a daunting talent — a writer who is a master stylist, who respects the audience’s intelligence and who effortlessly keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute.\n\nLinwood Barclay, author of No Time for Goodbye\n\nThis is a tour de force from one of the most original thriller writers around. With Dante-inspired villainy, Hitchcock obsessives, and an abundance of imaginative twists and turns David Hewson pulls out all the stops. Unmissable.\n\nDouglas Preston, author of The Monster of Florence and Blasphemy\n\nOne of my all-time favorite fictional detectives is David Hewson’s Nic Costa, and Dante’s Numbers brings Nic for the first time to American shores. From the opening scene of murder and mayhem at a movie premiere to the final, mind-blowing surprise, Dante’s Numbers is an elegant, clever, and terrifying tale of intrigue and murder involving Dante’s first circle of Hell and Hitchcock’s classic film Vertigo. An outstanding novel.\n\nSteve Berry, best-selling author of The Venetian Betrayal\n\nDavid Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist. Dante’s Numbersis politically wise, multi-dimensional, and psychologically intuitive. Action braids suspense on nearly every page, creating a reader’s delight from beginning to end. A superb effort by a master storyteller.\n\nDavid Morrell, author of First Blood and Creepers\n\nDante’s Numbers is action-packed suspense at its smartest and most gripping. Transplanting Nic Costa and his fellow Italian detectives to the dizzying world of Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a master stroke from a brilliant author. It’s impossible not to be swept up in the memorable, compelling world that is David Hewson’s specialty.\n\nDavid Corbett, Edgar-nominated author of Blood of Paradise\n\nDavid Hewson is a marvel, writing riveting suspense with a wistful grace. Dante’s Numbersmight very well be his best, a white-knuckle joy that’s smart, poignant, and acidly fun as Hollywood meets Dante via Italy’s notoriously over-the-top slasher films, known as the gialli. I got caught up in the story instantly, learning much, laughing too, all the way to the heart-pounding, heart-wrenching, heartbreaking end. If only all page-turners were this intelligent, witty and human.\n\nReviews\n\nPublishers Weekly\n\nHewson’s fine seventh crime novel to feature Nic Costa (after The Garden of Evil) takes the Italian police detective to San Francisco, where aging, ailing director Roberto Tonti is preparing for the premiere of his first major film in 20 years, Inferno. Based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the $150-million blockbuster, which was filmed in Tonti’s native Italy, is to be the capstone of the director’s career.\n\nIn San Francisco, the Questura (Costa’s outfit) and the carabinieri—the former charged with security for Dante artefacts in a tie-in exhibit, the latter with security for the actors—pursue separate, often conflicting agendas after a series of bizarre incidents, including a priceless artifact’s theft, a movie star’s kidnapping and an attack on another star that results in death. The SFPD also gets into the act as more murders plague the film’s debut. A convoluted plot, eccentric characters and numerous sinister connections to Hitchcock’s Vertigo all contribute to the suspense.\n\nIn the Times Record News, Wichita, Amy Hawkins writes…\n\nIn the seventh in his series featuring the suave Italian detective Nic Costa, David Hewson takes his leading man to San Francisco to track down spectacularly crafted crimes set against the backdrop of a film premiere in Dante’s Numbers. Hitchcock-type intrigue fuses with modern crime investigation as Nic and his two colleagues track down the missing death mask of Dante, preclude the infiltration of a historical exhibit at Golden Gate Park, and deduce the killer’s MO and identity – all while dodging the San Francisco team and the Carabinieri, their Italian counterparts, also on the case.\n\nNot one to gloss over Costa’s romantic nature, Hewson slowly reveals a delicious subplot involving Nic and Maggie Flavier, the star of the murder-embroiled film. Hewson leads you on an exciting journey, tumbling back and forth from San Francisco to Rome, wrapping it up in a classic Hitchcock climax that literally made me gasp – out loud. Like a whitewater rafting trip, over the rapids one minute and cruising along calmer waters the next, you find yourself catching your breath after each chapter for the next rush. Flawless suspense is intertwined with Dante’s eternal intrigue.\n\nIn Bookreporter Joe Hartlaub hailed the book as ‘the author’s best to date’, writing….\n\nDante’s Numbers is arguably the most accessible of Hewson’s works, which is not to say that the plot is necessarily a simple one. Nor does Hewson fail to inform while entertaining. Indeed, the ins and outs of film financing, motion picture history, the differences between a producer and a director, and a little-known but centuries-old financial version of the game of “chicken” are all explored here, against the backdrop of one of the world’s most interesting cities and, of course, the dip and swirl of romantic relationships. All of this is done within the context of an elaborate murder mystery, and exquisitely so.\n\nIn Mystery News Harriet Stay gives the book five stars and writes….\n\nI always have a special feeling when I begin a new book by a familiar author, especially one like David Hewson, who has never disappointed and at times created unexpected surprises. This is no exception. Hewson propels the reader from page one through a twisted whodunit, unraveling cryptic clues, converging with potential suspects, enjoying a romp beyond the cable cars and Union Square, touching the technology world of overnight billionaires, all the while still maintaining himself as a magician with the English language. This is a top-notch, thrilling ride.\n\nBooklist\n\nHewson never loses the reader’s attention, and for fans of this outstanding series, the latest chapter in the interlocked lives of Costa and friends… is as delicious as ever.\n\nMargaret Cannon in the Toronto Globe &amp; Mail\n\nThe seventh of Hewson’s series featuring Nic Costa of the Italian State Police is as smart and sophisticated as the other six. Hewson always uses some bit of Roman or Italian history or literature to focus his modern crime novels, and this is one of his best. Maybe that’s because the central theme is built around the work of Dante, or maybe it’s because Hewson moves the action, but not the mood, from Rome to Los Angeles, the centre of glitz and glamour. Dante and movies? If you think it won’t work, think again.\n\nWinston-Salem Journal\n\nWith his carefully prepared stories, larded with tasty historical tidbits and spread out across the series’ sumptuous Roman setting, David Hewson has created a growing clientele of satisfied readers. His handsome, slightly rumpled detective, Nic Costa, has led the reader through a feast of multilayered plot concoctions in the past six novels. The seventh in the series will be equally pleasing to his fans’ palates.\n\nWhen this series left Italy, it did not leave good writing behind; Hewson’s stories are simply well-done police procedurals in an exotic package.\n\nRichmond Times-Dispatch\n\nSending his cast to America is a masterful touch from Hewson, who works diligently to keep his series from becoming stale… As illusion fuses with reality and builds to a shattering climax, Hewson keeps his readers grounded in what’s real. Rich in characters, complex of plot, Dante’s Numbers is a worthy entry in an erudite, entertaining series.\n\nEdmonton Sun\n\nDavid Hewson’s Rome-based trio of Italian detectives, Nic Costa, Leo Falcone and Teresa Lupo, move their operations temporarily to America in this new novel. A multimillion dollar movie is being shot in Rome, based on Dante’s masterpiece, Inferno, with an international cast which includes two American movie stars, Allan Prime and Maggie Flavier. The Italian premiere is accompanied by an exhibit of the poet’s priceless death mask, but a macabre intervention showing Prime’s kidnapping and murder brings the detectives into the case. As the movie premiere moves to San Francisco, they are along to protect other artifacts. Eerie coincidences turn up involving Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Vertigo. Other murders and an obsessive killer heighten the suspense. Another Nic Costa winner.\n\nThe Mystery Gazette\n\nThe Dante connection in Italy is one of the best police procedural opening segues in years… fans of the series will enjoy Costa and his mates as they travel the mean streets of San Francisco.\n\nClaire Emsberger in the Sullivan County Democrat\n\nAllow me simply to announce this eighth of David Hewson’s Rome suspense novels—the third I’ve reported on in the last two years, again featuring the brilliant and soulful detective, Nic Costa. These are contemporary novels, but also steeped in the lore of different periods of the city’s history (which has plenty of history to draw on). In this one, for the first time in the series and in his life, he leaves Rome—for San Francisco. With an American movie star. But Costa remains gloomily philosophical, just the way we like him, and the story is just the way we like it.\n\nBookbag\n\nNic Costa is a breath of fresh air in detective fiction in general. The absence of clichéd police officers is to be highly commended. Although the pathologist is a light-hearted character, she doesn’t hang around making horrible jokes about sandwiches for black humour. All four police officers are thoroughly plausible human beings. I was really pleased with Dante’s Numbers. It’s played dead straight but contains just enough that is quirky and off the wall. The ending is over the top but utterly utterly brilliant, and even in the very few parts which are predictable it’s all a huge amount of fun. Hewson’s writing is solid and engaging, and he’s clearly at ease with his regular cast of characters.','Dante&#039;s Numbers','','publish','open','open','','dantes-numbers-2','','','2010-08-07 10:58:02','2010-08-07 10:58:02','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5290',6,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5289,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:06','2010-08-07 10:58:06','It’s spring in Rome. Nic Costa is just back at work after the cataclysmic events of A Season for the Dead, with a new partner, Gianni Peroni, a disgraced vice inspector bounced down to the ranks. And on the edge of the city an American couple make a discovery that will rock the city. As the jacket says…\n\nThe Villa of Mysteries appropriates the beauty and savagery of classical Rome and sets it off against the corruption and sleaze of the present day.\n\nTeresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, thinks she has the victim of an ancient pagan ritual on her hands. Inspector Leo Falcone, however, knows this case is recent history and one that desperately needs a solution. So begins an investigation that will take the police deep into the dark underworld of Rome’s most disturbing and sinister secrets.\n\nEmilio Neri, the local mafia boss, seems to be one of the keys to the mystery, and he can’t even trust his own wayward son. Retired US mobster Vergil Wallis is another key player who’s reluctant to talk. Meanwhile, someone is trying very hard to kill the pathologist. And now another beautiful young woman has gone missing in familiar circumstances.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for this book at Places[/stextbox]\n\nThe second book in any series is always important. It needs to lay the foundations for the stories, and the characters, that follow. Unlike A Season for the Dead, this book shifts the viewpoint from beyond Nic Costa alone, to those around him, men and women with more years in law enforcement, more than a touch of cynicism in some cases… and a habit of catching their breath when Costa, bright, young, incorruptible, comes on the case.\n\nReviews\n\nMargaret Cannon, Globe and Mail, Toronto writes…\n\nIf you missed A Season for the Dead, the first novel in this series set in modern Rome and featuring Inspector Leo Falcone, you’re in for a treat. This one’s even better and the cast of characters, some just touched on in the first book, is coming alive.\n\nHewson’s strong suit is his ability to blend ancient and modern Rome, a feat that happens naturally if you’re standing at the edge of the Janiculum, but is difficult otherwise. Hewson’s plot, woven with ancient lore, has just the right amount of information and deduction.Teresa Lupo is a pathologist longing for the big find. When a woman’s body is found in a peat bog near the Tiber, she thinks she has it. The body is recent, but there are signs pointing to an ancient ritual, a killing in a manner not seen for centuries. A hidden cult? Lupo is set on uncovering the secret. That determination is deadly, as Insp. Leo Falcone knows. He fears for Lupo’s life as the investigation takes the Rome police into the inner sanctums of criminals hidden not only by power but by history.Along the way, the story picks up the tales of detectives Costa and Peroni, mafioso Emilio Neri, and an American mobster on holiday. All that, and then another young woman is missing and presumed murdered. This is a terrific novel by a fine emerging British talent.\n\nStrand Magazine says…\n\nNo less intricate and atmospheric than the first novel in this series, A Season for the Dead, Hewson’s second police procedural set in today’s colorful, corrupt Rome… seethes with intrigue and depravity. This psychologically wrenching novel delves deep into the theme of Euripedes’ enigmatic classical tragedy Bacchae – that humanity ignores or tries to sublimate its unconscious drives at its own risk. Peroni sums it up succinctly: ‘One day when you’re least expecting it, the crazy gene wakes up and you know it’s pointless trying to fight.’ And that ‘crazy gene’ overcomes ethics, morals, even reason itself.\n\nIn the leading book website Bookreporter Joe Hartlaub writes…\n\nHewson is nothing less and never less than marvelous throughout. He does not even attempt to explain the labyrinthine and uneasy connections between the Italian police and organized crime and the always blurry line which is both a line of demarcation and commonality between the two, but illustrates it so sharply through anecdotal description that one comes away with an understanding which is difficult to articulate but easy to know.\n\nHewson does not wait until the end… to begin reigning in his numerous plot lines, choosing instead to introduce and resolve issues from beginning to end, so that by the end of this magnificent work, there is no sense of a rush to resolution, even as, unknown to the reader, there is much to be resolved.\n\nThe depth of what Hewson has accomplished, however, goes beyond his considerable plotting and narrative skills. For what Hewson has created… may arguably be one of the most strongly and subtly feminist novels of recent note. The women at the beginning of this work are all victims; by the end…things are…well, they are not the same. This is a work, and an author, of unforgettable stature.\n\nJay Strafford of the Richmond Times-Dispatch writes…\n\nOn the heels of his stunning first entry in the Nic Costa series, A Season for the Dead , British author David Hewson returns to modern-day Rome for a second book involving the police detective. As The Villa of Mysteries opens, Costa is back on the job after six months recupation from what befell him in the first book. He and his new partner, Gianni Peroni, are getting to know each other when a woman reports that her teenage daughter has been abducted… Among the nasty secrets uncovered are a Dionysian cult, a mob connection, and government corruption. As he did in A Season for the Dead, Hewson writes a compellingly complex novel, one with numerous twists. Near the end, one surprises-and a second stuns. A haunting portayal of evil-and damaged women- The Villa of Mysteries will leave readers eager for Costa’s third adventure.\n\nJennifer Baker of Booklist says…\n\nOnce again capturing the imagination of historical mystery lovers, the author of Lucifer’s Shadow brings an ancient Dionysian ritual to light as a clue in this riveting and fast-paced thriller… A complex and satisfying mystery from a master plot maker.\n\nFrom Mystery News\n\nThis is a richly layered crime novel. It takes the reader into a sometimes slow but always fascinating journey through the rituals of ancient Rome as well as the rites of the modern mob. Background is as important as is the back story of all the major characters. This makes them all more believable, more human, and much more interesting.The author’s sense of place is wonderful. The city of Rome lays before us as we sip coffee in one of the sunny piazzas, wander through a narrow back street half in shadow, stare at monuments to the powerful ancient empire. I can almost taste the chilled white wine or the ice cream in the Piazza Navona… An intriguing and thoughtfully complex story. Many things are not what they seem and the author delights in surprising the reader more than once in this finely done crime novel.\n\nBeth Cason, of the Anniston Star writes…\n\nAfter losing his partner, Luca Rossi, on his previous case, and after six months of recuperation, Italian detective Nic Costa rejoins the police force… his commanding officer pairs him with a veteran officer from vice, Gianni Peroni.On their first call they are sent to investigate the discovery of the body of a young girl found in a peat bog. At first it looks like a find for archaeologists instead of detectives. However, when the chief pathologist begins to examine the body, she quickly finds that the girl has been dead for only 16 years, not 1,600. The mystery becomes a puzzling mass of threads, becoming increasingly entangled as it moves along.While Nic and Gianni struggle to find a lead to the missing girl, their boss, Falcone, struggles with the anti-mafia unit and local mobster Emilio Neri. Whatever happened sixteen years ago, at the last celebration of the Liberalia, has twisted emotions and resulted in a storm of revenge. It’s enough to say that Congreve was right when he pronounced, “Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned”.Hewson’s gift lies in character creation.\n\nIn a previous book, A Season for the Dead, the author made Luca Rossi a perfect foil for Nic; the same is true here, as he substitutes Peroni for Rossi. Peroni, by any definition, is a crooked cop. Yet he carries an air of stability and decency about him, despite the shady company he keeps; recall Sipowicz in the early years of NYPD Blue. Here the well-worn plot angle of wily veteran mentoring less-experienced partner is carried off with fresh insight.While British writer Hewson’s books may seem too literary for some readers, they are well worth the effort for those willing to take the plunge. Characters as memorable as Nic and Gianni are hard to find in any genre.\n\nThe UK magazine Crime Time wrote…\n\nThese modern Roman cops are as richly disparate as in any longer-running series (this is Hewson’s second) and the atmosphere is as densely layered as cold lasagne, but I’m trivialising what is, in truth, a beautifully structured and absorbing thriller. The characters polish up as individuals, freshly drawn. The city of Rome, her cops, bureaucrats and criminals, shine hard and clear as sunlight bouncing off the Trevi fountain. But they’re a lot less pretty. And this is tasty stuff.\n\nA four-star review from Ink\n\n…a novel to savour – imagine the deceptively relaxed atmosphere of Donna Leon’s Brunetti novels mixed with the darkness of Ian Rankin’s Rebus sequence. Excellent.\n\nFrom The Good Book Guide…\n\nA riveting tale of revenge brought to life by sharp characterisation and powerful dynamics.','','','publish','open','open','','5289','','','2010-08-07 10:58:06','2010-08-07 10:58:06','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5289',11,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5288,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:10','2010-08-07 10:58:10','It begins on one of Rome’s least-known hills, the Aventino, in the public piazza fronting the mansion of the Knights of Malta. There a curious keyhole to the knights’ estate reveals an astonishing view, a direct line across the Tiber to the dome of St. Peters in the distance.\n\nFor seven-year-old Alessio Bramante the act of peeking through the keyhole on his way to school each day is a ritual, a way of establishing a bond with his difficult, distant father, one of Rome’s most famous archaeologists, Giorgio Bramante. Then one day, after an unexpected visit to one of Giorgio’s underground excavations, Alessio disappears. A group of students who had slipped into the site, an ancient Mithraic temple, attract the blame. A tragedy occurs. Alessio is never found, and it’s his father who goes to jail.\n\nFourteen years later, in an arcane shrine by the Tiber known as the Little Museum of Purgatory, a tee-shirt belonging to Bramante’s son begins to show fresh bloodstains. No one can understand how the marks have appeared behind the glass.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for this book at Places[/stextbox]\n\nSoon it becomes apparent that the newly-released Giorgio Bramante is bent upon a vicious and terrifying revenge on all those he blames for the loss of his son, and numbers Inspector Leo Falcone, a member of the original investigating team, among his targets. In the depths of the labyrinth he knows better than any man, a distraught father seeks his vengeance against those he hates.\n\nNic Costa, watching Falcone move relentlessly into the man’s deadly grip, realises the answer to the deadly present must lie in solving a cold case that, like the forgotten Alessio Bramante, has long been regarded as dead and buried for good.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3468\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"180\" caption=\"Saul Reichlin\"][/caption]\n\nAudio crime book of the year\nIn 2008 The Seventh Sacrament won the new Audible Sounds of Crime prize for the unabridged crime audiobook of the year. The award, which was based on votes from readers, was announced at the Bristol CrimeFest conference.\n\nI’m really honoured and flattered to get such a plaudit for the work, and delighted too that I quite rightly share it with Saul Reichlin, right, the series narrator, whose astonishing performance of the books is surely one of the main reasons for their popularity in audio.\n\nReviews\n\nBooklist, the American Library Association’s influential magazine…\n\nHewson’s uncompromising trio of antiestablishment Roman cops—Nic Costa, Gianni Peroni, and their boss, Leo Falcone—are back in the Eternal City and up to their necks in another vat of hot water. As with the previous four entries in this always-captivating series, the crime on the front burner—a dead body discovered in a Roman church—is merely the entrée point to a case with tentacles extending deep into ancient history…Hewson keeps his readers securely tethered to a narrative lifeline; like Theseus on the trail of the minotaur, we follow the plot around countless blind corners but never lose our way out of the maze. The interplay between Hewson’s three cops—and between them and the especially rich supporting cast—lift this novel far above the plot-driven Da Vinci Code and its many imitators. A superb mix of history, mystery, and humanity.\n\nAmazon’s top reviewer Harriet Klausner writes…\n\nCosta’s last outing (The Lizard’s Bite) was one of the top police procedurals of 2006; The Seventh Sacrament will prove likewise in 2007. The story line is fast-paced while it smoothly moves back and forth between the present and the past. The investigation is top rate filled with twists and turns while Leo brings a human element with his feelings of inadequacy and guilt. Fans will appreciate David Hewson’s superior Roman adventure.\n\nI Love A Mystery’s Bob Walch declares…\n\nA clever and utterly surprising ending will stun even the most jaded reader. If you are one of those individuals who believe there are very few writers left who can make you sit up and applaud, be forewarned. You’ll be putting your hands together in appreciation of David Hewson!\n\nPublisher’s Weekly says…\n\nThe intricate fifth thriller from British author Hewson to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after 2006’s The Lizard’s Bite) artfully weaves several points-of-view as it shifts between past and present. Fourteen years after seven-year-old Alessio Bramante, the son of an eminent archeology professor, disappeared underneath Rome’s ancient Circus Maximus, someone seeking revenge attacks Costa’s colleague, Insp. Leo Falcone, who worked on the unsolved case of the missing boy. Falcone and Costa start asking questions that should have been asked during the original bungled investigation. The subterranean labyrinths just may hold the answers to a mystery whose poignant resolution few readers will anticipate.\n\nFrom The Times Literary Supplement…\n\nThere are hints of Dan Brown here, but David Hewson handles the material intelligently and plot and characterization remain the novel’s strengths. Bramante, the anti-hero, has some of the hall marks of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter though without the misplaced comedy. He is a monstrous creation with a terrifying sexual appetite matched only by his murderous cruelty. The policemen, from the new commissario down to the old sergeant on the front desk, are lively and well drawn, as are the three main characters, Costa, Peroni and Falcone, and their love interests.\n\nThe Calgary Herald says…\n\nBeneath the Vespa-crowded streets of Rome, there are other, much older incarnations of the Eternal City. These older Romes are littered with clues to a mysterious pagan past, clues that can be found in the rubble of middens, roads and religious altars. It is this hidden Rome that fascinates David Hewson. Here, in his fifth book featuring his misfit cops Leo Falcone, Gianni Peroni and Nic Costa, he explores both the secrets that haunt old Rome and the terrible secrets that haunt families. Hewson’s work has been compared to that of Donna Leon and Dan Brown, and it will certainly appeal to fans of both writers. His stories are fresh, original, brightly written and very smart, and his latest book is his best so far. This is definitely among this spring’s must-read crime fictions.\n\nThe York Press…\n\nThe Seventh Sacrament is Yorkshire-born David Hewson’s fifth mystery set in Italy featuring detectives Nic Costa and Gianna Peroni. Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, the detectives set about rebuilding their lives. But the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a T-shirt in a local museum soon has the old team back in action again, and it’s not long before they are embroiled in a mystery involving both the ancient cult of Mithras and a sinister ossuary, The House of Bones. If you’re a fan of Dan “Da Vinci Code” Brown you’ll love this.\n\nReviewing The Evidence …\n\nDavid Hewson can really evoke an Italian atmosphere well – whether the modern city or the frightening underground city. The twists of the story are cleverly done – even when the situation seems obvious he can produce a strange response that can turn the tale on its head. The climax is absolutely shattering.\n\nThe Reading Post says…\n\nHewson is a talented writer with the gift of creating a good, old-fashioned page-turning thriller. His characters shine with real depth and conviction and the plot is breathtakingly imaginative. A superb read for crime fans who like their mysteries both ancient and modern.\n\nWoman magazine (circulation 536,364, which has made the title a Book Club choice)\n\nA thrilling tale…with the author’s captivating descriptions of long-forgotten passageways and temples, and his skill in creating a sinister undertone keeping you, hooked from the off. A highly dramatic tale for those who like a sprinkling of culture with their crime thriller.\n\nChoice magazine\n\nThis gripping novel incorporates modern Rome, mysterious happenings in churches and the Roman cult of Mithras. David Hewson has a superb sense of pace and place, his characters feel real, and he writes a page-turner detective story like no other.\n\nThe Mystery and Thriller Club (UK) magazine says…\n\nThe fifth Nic Costa and Gianna Peroni mystery is a devilishly compelling brew of conspiracy, vengeance and murder. Brilliantly entertaining and deftly written, The Seventh Sacrament is a sophisticated and original thriller that cements David Hewson’s burgeoning reputation as one of crime writing’s most exciting talents.','','','publish','open','open','','5288','','','2010-08-07 10:58:10','2010-08-07 10:58:10','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5288',8,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5287,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:14','2010-08-07 10:58:14','It’s approaching Christmas in Rome and snow is falling in a way that only happens every twenty or thirty years. The city is soon paralysed by an unseasonal icy grip, and in the dark corners of the Pantheon a grim and mysterious story begins to unfold.\n\nNic Costa and his partner Gianni Peroni are called to reports of an intruder. Instead they find a woman’s naked body, scarred in a geometric pattern. Almost immediately they are met by a team from the FBI determined to take over an investigation into what they claim is a killer murdering American tourists around the world, in ways which link back to the mystical structure of the Pantheon itself.\n\nBut one agent, Emily Deacon, has a different story to tell, one that has a tragic personal dimension. Through her and an elusive Iraqi girl Laila, only witness to the death in the Pantheon, Nic Costa is pulled relentlessly into the world of the Iraq war and the shadowy secret agents whose job was to penetrate the regime of Saddam Hussein before the armed forces attacked.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for this book at Places[/stextbox]\n\nSoon he is aware that there is a conspiracy at the heart of these deaths that runs back to Washington, and the past of Emily Deacon’s dead father, a tangle of connections he has to unravel, even if it comes at a considerable personal and professional cost.\n\nA madman is loose in the frozen winter landscape of Rome, and as Costa soon realises, he is one the American agents know only too well.\n\nReviews\n\nThe third novel in the Nic Costa series was made one of 2006’s Top 10 crime novels by Booklist, the influential magazine of the American Library Association. Booklist’s Bill Ott describes the book as ‘ a corruption-drenched Italian procedural that blends historical detail with contemporary cynicism’, and adds, All the historical detail gives the proceedings a tasty complexity comparable to Pérez-Reverte, but what really makes the novel work is the interplay between the anti-establishment Roman cops.’\n\nP.G. Koth of the Houston Chronicle comments…\n\nFor all the high-stakes action, in which a serial killer with possible ties to the black ops of U.S. intelligence wreaks havoc in snowbound Rome, it is the compelling character of… three men that drives the book. The fiercely principled trio, rare enough in the ranks of Rome police, are especially distinct in comparison to the arrogant FBI team, partnered with Italy’s own intelligence ‘ghosts,’ that takes control of the investigation of a murdered woman Costa and Peroni find inside the Pantheon.\n\nShe is buried in snow beneath the oculus: ‘a steady swirling stream … , pirouetting around itself with the perfect, precise symmetry of a strand of human DNA, [falling] in the dead center of the room.’ Similarly fine passages further describing the snowstorm that has cloaked the city in silence punctuate the plot, which hinges on a homeless Iraqi girl who is a compulsive pickpocket, and inexperienced FBI agent Emily Deacon, who also has a personal stake in the case.\n\nThe novel’s contrast between the gray areas that spies negotiate and the clear imperatives of the law is stark. Peeling away the layers that obfuscate those imperatives becomes a mesmerizing experience.\n\nJoe Hartlaub, of Bookreporter, writes…\n\nHewson, perhaps more than any other contemporary author, has combined a sense of grand concept – so popular these days – with believable, sympathetic characters who one cares about. Hewson is nothing short of marvelous, as always, mixing in legitimate conclusions with red herrings so that readers and characters both engagingly stumble along to conclusions that may or may not be correct.\n\nAs entertaining as this is, however, nothing can match Hewson’s ability to capture the flavor of Rome – a heady stew composed of its people, culture and geography in equal parts – so that what we ultimately are favored with is a mystery steeped in a culture that is contemporaneously familiar and exotic.\n\nHank Wagner in Mystery Scene…\n\nA happy blend of police procedural and international thriller, Hewson’s third Nic Costa novel finds the trinity of Costa, Peroni and their irascible chief Leo Falcone in fine form, fearlessly grappling with criminals, bureaucracies, their significant others, and the American intellligence community in the pursuit of the truth. Providing laughter and thrillers in equal amounts, Hewson makes it look easy.\n\nThe Sacred Cut is totally compelling, one of those rare thrillers which emphasis character over action, although Hewson acquits himself admirably in that department as well. It’s the attention Hewson lavishes on his entire cast that keeps readers; interest piqued; all the rest, as they say, is gravy.\n\nMarilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review writes…\n\nHewson can dress a stage with operatic panache, and here his mise-en-scène is spectacular; the Pantheon, its ancient dome open to ‘a steady, swirling stream of snow, pirouetting around itself with the perfect, precise symmetry of a strand of human DNA’ and enveloping a mutilated body in a funnel of ice. (The) Nic Costa novels, set mainly in Rome and featuring a personable young homicide detective, are built with pleasing symmetry. In the previous books… the settings range from the Vatican library to an archaeological site at Ostia Antica, and the reference points include a Caravaggio painting and ancient Bacchanalian rituals. The killings, despite their savagery, have theatrical flair and are put to vivid use in fascinating lectures on Italian art and history.\n\nPublishers Weekly\n\nHewson’s solid writing and multidimensional characters command attention from start to finish of this smart, literate thriller.\n\nKirkus Reviews\n\nHewson’s literate prose, bolstered by local color and historical tidbits, makes for top-flight entertainment.\n\nMargaret Cannon of the Globe and Mail, Toronto, says…\n\nThis is the third novel in this Roman cop series, and I’m hooked. I love the way Hewson combines 4,000 years of Roman history with 21st-century police plots. I love the Ed McBain style, with recurring characters who play different roles in each book. Most of all, I love the atmosphere and the beautifully crafted plots.','','','publish','open','open','','5287','','','2010-08-07 10:58:14','2010-08-07 10:58:14','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5287',10,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5286,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:17','2010-08-07 10:58:17','In a dilapidated glass furnace off the island of Murano the fire races out of control. Two people are dead, and for Leo Falcone, exiled to Venice, with Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni, the question is whether he’s dealing with one murderer or two.\n\nFor Costa, life in Venice is more perplexing on other fronts too. His relationship with Emily Deacon is deepening, and she is missing the law enforcement work she’s abandoned for a different, quieter career. Slowly, the sluggish world of the lagoon begins to enfold the Romans in its sinister grip, as they try to untangle the complex family ties of the tragic Arcangeli family on a private island falling into ruin.\n\nThe Lizard’s Bite is in part a companion piece to the earlier standalone novel, The Cemetery of Secrets, bringing several characters from that story into the tale of murder, betrayal and deceit which Costa and his colleagues must unpick in the heady, close heights of the Venetian summer.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for this book at Places[/stextbox]\n\nThe Venetian police turn to the Romans to wrap it up quickly and cleanly, in time for the English tycoon, Hugo Massiter, to complete his purchase of the island. To Falcone, this seems a small matter, a domestic murder of little more than intellectual interest. But as the summer heat takes hold, and the Romans’ investigations begin to grate with a local force more interested in tidy solutions than awkward questions, the island’s spell begins to cast a wider net.\n\nReviews\n\nPublishers Weekly starred review\n\nBritish author Hewson’s wonderfully complex and finely paced fourth crime novel (after 2005’sThe Sacred Cut) to feature Roman detective Nic Costa and his unconventional partner, Gianni Peroni, finds the pair exiled to Venice, where they look into the case of glassmaker Uriel Arcangelo, who apparently killed his wife, Bella, then committed suicide. Instead of coming to the foreordained conclusion higher authority demands, Costa and Peroni determine, “We’re no longer trying to understand the means Uriel Arcangelo used to kill his wife. But why, how and with whom the late Bella appears to have conspired to kill him.” An urbane and wealthy Englishman who wants to buy the Isolo degli Arcangeli glassworks becomes an important suspect. Hewson is particularly strong on characterization, revealing each personality subtly and naturally as he or she reacts to the intricate plot developments. Newcomers as well as series fans will be enthralled.\n\nBookreporter, Joe Hartlaub\n\nDavid Hewson may well be the finest mystery writer of our time. In my humble opinion, he’s also one of our best contemporary writers, period. There are elements of Agatha Christie, Graham Greene and William Shakespeare in his work, but when you sit down and crack the spine of A SEASON OF THE DEAD or THE VILLA OF MYSTERIES, what you have is all and uniquely Hewson.Hewson peppers THE LIZARD’S BITE with a number of interesting – and fascinating – factoids about places and subjects that compel the reader to find out more on their own. But this common thread (among others) through Hewson’s novels is not performed by rote. Think instead of a tightrope walker who performs his work daily for the same audience but introduces a new, and jeopardous, element every time. That’s a Hewson novel. Very highly recommended.\n\nMargaret Cannon, Toronto Globe and Mail\n\nIf you haven’t already discovered this brilliant series featuring Nic Costa and a cast of Roman detectives, you have a treat in store. The Lizard’s Bite is the fourth book in the set and, like the other three, it is superb. Hewson likes to combine history, art and detection, and he delivers them all with different focuses for different books. The Lizard’s Bite is about glass. Followers know that Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni have been exiled from Rome and sent to Venice. Only a Roman would find that a trial. Leo Falcone, meanwhile, is assigned to the Carabinieri’s art-theft division. Everyone converges on the Veneto in summer, a blistering season of sirocco winds and dry, burning heat. In Murano, the glassmakers spin the exquisite spirals and colours that have been the trademark of Venetian glass for centuries.One stifling night, Uriel Arcangelo tends the family furnace. His job is to have the molten glass ready for the glassblowers in the morning. But more than glass is burning in the Arcangelo furnaces, and the terrors of the night turn into death and destruction, exposing a secret that can destroy the entire family. Hewson manages to tuck in plenty of art secrets and thrills, and some nods to the fad for Da Vinci Code-style mysteries. This is another great novel by a fine author.\n\nThe Literary Review\n\nHewson’s very enjoyable Italian mysteries are cleverly worked out and sharply written, and his take on the secretive city is much more uncomfortable and sinister than Leon’s (Donna Leon’s Through a Glass, Darkly, which is reviewed previously). In his hero’s eyes it is like ‘a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go’.\n\nNew York Times\n\nThe mises-en-scene of David Hewson’s elaborate Italian-based novels are always so flamboyantly operatic that I keep expecting the principals to break out in song…. told with dashing style, in atmospheric set pieces that capture the theatrical grandeur of Venice and the pockets of miserable squalor behind its splendid facade.\n\nBoston Globe\n\nThis complex novel, a journey to hell and back, is leavened with food and humor and propelled by suspense and action. The atmospherics are extraordinary — Hewson does Venice every bit as well as Tony Hillerman does New Mexico. The ending is particularly satisfying, like watching a multistage finale to a spectacular fireworks display.\n\nDenver Post\n\nLayered into the story are some complex relationships among members of the withdrawn and insular Arcangelo family, clinging to their ancient art in a world overrun by tourists looking for cheap trinkets, as well as a stalled love affair between Costa and former FBI agent Emily Deacon. And it is complicated further by a rich, powerful and amoral Englishman (from an earlier non-series book, Lucifer’s Shadow), who holds the key to the whole mystery but can’t be touched by the Venetian police. Venice itself, a “beautiful graveyard of a city,” as one of the characters calls it, is always the heart and soul of this rich, complex and thoroughly bewitching book.\n\nToronto Sun\n\nThis fourth book in David Hewson’s original series… again features Roman detective Nic Costa and his colleagues. On a tiny island near Murano, the glass furnace of the Arcangeli family is dangerously overheating. Uriel Arcangelo is killed by a savage fire, which almost consumes the furnace. His death is deemed an accident. But when his wife’s body is found, the Roman detectives are asked to conduct their own investigation in time for English tycoon Hugo Massiter to finish buying the Arcangeli island.Massiter is on his way to becoming a modern-day Doge in Venice, in terms of power and influence, and although the detectives suspect he is involved in the deaths at the glass factory, he seems untouchable. The densely plotted story needs to be carefully followed, but the drama and characters make it an absorbing read.','The Lizard&#039;s Bite','','publish','open','open','','the-lizards-bite-2','','','2010-08-07 10:58:17','2010-08-07 10:58:17','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5286',9,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5285,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:20','2010-08-07 10:58:20','The Garden of Evil, has won rave responses from the critics, including coveted starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist and won best mystery of 2008 title in the American Library Association’s annual genre awards.\n\nPW describes the work as ‘this dark jewel of a thriller’. Booklist’s Bill Ott declares, ‘Arturo Pérez-Reverte has long set the gold standard for mixing history, mystery, and modern life into literary stews of mouthwatering flavor and incredible subtlety, but it’s time to agree that Hewson now shares that position—and is on the verge of claiming it outright.’ The ALA awards citations call it, ‘this masterfully crafted puzzler’.\n\nIn a deserted artist’s studio in the heart of Rome, detectives stumble upon a scene of shocking brutality: two bodies, freshly killed. Looming over them is a painting that bears all the hallmarks of a Caravaggio: a brilliantly coloured canvas depicting a violent tableau of beauty and depravity. This grisly discovery sends Nic Costa on a desperate chase through the streets of his city. The consequences are devastating. And for Nic, the case has only just begun.\n\nAt the crime scene, detectives find a treasure trove of evidence—from fresh blood to lurid photos of dead prostitutes. For Costa, finding the killer who escaped him is intensely personal. But his prime suspect arrogantly hides in plain sight behind a fortress of money, power, and the law.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for this book at Places[/stextbox]\n\nTeaming with an art expert, Costa follows clues hidden in the mysterious Caravaggio canvas. As he moves through a maze of history, he begins to make stunning connections to the present case. And each discovery brings him closer and closer to a secret buried in a priceless work of art, a conspiracy dating back four hundred years—and men who will stop at nothing to protect their own private garden of evil.\n\nReviews\n\nPublishers Weekly (starred review)\n\nAt the outset of this dark jewel of a thriller, Hewson’s sixth to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after The Seventh Sacrament), Costa and his team are just starting to process a crime scene in an artist’s shabby studio, where two corpses lie sprawled before a painting of a rapturous female nude redolent of Caravaggio, when they flush out a hooded gunman. The gunman escapes in the ensuing chase… While Costa is taken off the case, his rule-bending boss finds a way for him to help on the sly, assisting the unusual art expert—young Sister Agata Graziano—called in to investigate whether the canvas could really be a Caravaggio and what light it might shed on the murders. You don’t have to be much of a sleuth to foresee danger for Sister Agata, but that’s about the only predictable element in a plot otherwise as serpentine—and suspense filled—as the ancient Roman byways through which Costa stalks his prey.\n\nBill Ott of Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association (starred review)\n\nHewson’s latest Nic Costa thriller opens with a shocker that will have series fans reeling, just as it does the principal players: Rome police detectives Costa and Gianni Peroni and their boss, the brooding Leo Falcone. What follows is another gritty, compelling mix of mean streets and ancient history, as the detectives attempt to unravel an appalling series of murders that seems to connect to an unknown Caravaggio painting depicting a tableau of startling depravity.\n\nWith the help of lay sister and Caravaggio expert Agata Graziano, the detectives quickly determine that a group of wealthy Roman aristocrats, impervious to the law, are re-creating the violent, orgiastic lifestyle enjoyed centuries earlier by Caravaggio and his circle, who called themselves the “Ekstasists”—and if a few prostitutes die in support of the hedonists’ revels, what of it? As usual, Hewson mixes art history and contemporary crime perfectly, but this time he digs deeper, finding connections between art and life that go to the very heart of humanity’s conflicted cravings for the sensual and the spiritual. And emerging from the complex, masterful plot, its sinews intertwined between past and present, is the towering, tragic figure of Caravaggio, whose still-unsolved murder in Rome in 1606 holds the key to bringing the modern-day Ekstasists to justice.\n\nArturo Pérez-Reverte has long set the gold standard for mixing history, mystery, and modern life into literary stews of mouthwatering flavor and incredible subtlety, but it’s time to agree that Hewson now shares that position—and is on the verge of claiming it outright.\n\nBookBrowse’s Kim Kovacs writes…\n\nI have a rule: I won’t call a book a page-turner unless reading it causes me to miss my bus stop. Engrossed in David Hewson’s latest mystery, The Garden of Evil, I missed my stop not once but twice – and that was before I was halfway through the novel. This one’s a page-turner all right! It’s also a top-notch, high-quality detective procedural that will appeal to readers who enjoy a literary mystery.\n\nSetting his novel entirely in Rome, Hewson does a wonderful job of recreating the city for his readers, allowing its atmosphere to permeate the book. His readers not only “see” the city with their imagination, they “feel” the cold stones of its streets and buildings and experience the claustrophobia of its alleys as the detectives pursue their suspect.\n\nAuthors with the ability to create such vivid descriptions of time and place sometimes fall short when it comes to writing action sequences. Such is not the case with Hewson who delivers action that is both riveting and cinematic. What truly draws the reader, though, are the sections of the novel that concentrate on revelation – revelation of clues to solving the crime as well as the illumination of the principals’ characters.\n\nIn the Richmond Times-Dispatch Jay Strafford writes…\n\nWhen art imitates life, the result can be powerful. And when it takes inspiration from death, it’s at once mesmerizing and terrifying.\n\nSuch is the case with David Hewson’s The Garden of Evil (480 pages, Delacorte, $24), the sixth book in the British author’s series featuring Nic Costa, a police detective in Rome, and his colleagues.\n\nHewson draws his characters well; each book continues their growth and the reader’s affection for them. In The Garden of Evil, a new character, Agata Graziano, a sister in a convent and an art expert, particularly engages the imagination. And Hewson’s imagery is striking — a police car’s “blue light flashed down the alley, like some mutant Christmas decoration newly escaped from the tree.”\n\nA thought-provoking blend of art history and mystery, The Garden of Evil is primarily a novel about sin — original sin, as well as old sins made new. A chilling tale rendered in evocative prose, it’s Hewson’s latest triumph — and a treat for readers who like their entertainment literate.\n\nMargaret Cannon, in the Toronto Globe &amp; Mail…\n\nThe Nic Costa series, set in Rome, is one of my favourites. Hewson sets his stories so firmly in place that it’s possible to go from street to piazza to alley, and almost feel the stones of the walks or touch the ancient Roman bricks. The Garden of Evil is the best book so far in the Costa series, and that’s saying a lot. But Hewson takes his plotting here a giant step further than in the usual cop/chase story.\n\nPeter Burton in the Daily Express\n\nThe Garden of Evil is the sixth in the Costa series and is even more gripping than its predecessors. Hewson is a cunning storyteller… What follows is a deadly cat-and-mouse game during which the body count steadily rises and Roman history once again proves to be a vital component in the case. The Garden of Evil is impossible to put down.\n\nIn Mystery News Harriet Stay writes…\n\nI have loved all of Hewson’s thrillers or suspence procedurals and this was no exception. It sizzles with grisly murders, well-drawn characters you care about (there were times I wanted to scream or cry), dialogue to envy and all in all a story not to forget.\n\nAt Bookreporter Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum writes…\n\nThe Garden of Evil is one of the best literary police procedurals written this season. The breadth and intense accuracy of David Hewson’s research is the palette he uses for the landscape against which (the book) is juxtaposed. With the stroke of his pen, he transports readers to times and places buried in eons of history while seamlessly bringing them back to the present. In each of his books his protagonist, Nic Costa, has slowly shed his picaresque role and is now a man with a real sense of self. No longer the naïve beat cop, he has earned his stripes as a detective, which adds verisimilitude to the way he ferrets out the clues that he needs to solve the murders in this labyrinthine drama.\n\nThose who are already fans will not want to miss The Garden of Evil. And new readers will find themselves enchanted by Hewson’s storytelling abilities.','','','publish','open','open','','5285','','','2010-08-07 10:58:20','2010-08-07 10:58:20','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5285',7,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5284,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:23','2010-08-07 10:58:23','The eighth Nic Costa novel, The Blue Demon(UK) and City of Fear (US), is set entirely in Rome and the area north of the city stretching towards Tuscany known as the Maremma. It’s the first book in the series set in the world of international politics.\n\nThe narrative takes place over a few days in which Rome comes to a halt with the arrival of a world G8 summit due to take place in the Quirinale Palace, the former pope’s palazzo that sits atop the Quirinal Hill. A minor Italian politician has been kidnapped, apparently in an attempt to extract information about the summit. Costa and Falcone are summoned to the Quirinale for a meeting with the Italian president, Dario Sordi, and his security advisers. There they learn that a former terrorist band known as The Blue Demon, long thought dead, has seemingly revived and is threatening to bring chaos to the city for the summit. Sordi, a wily friend of Costa’s late father, believes there is more to the story than meets the eye and wants him and his friends to look more closely at the background of these home-grown terrorists, led by a former professor of Etruscan studies, Andrea Petrakis.\n\nAs always I try to blend real Italian history into a modern fictional tale. Part of the story concerns the tragically limited legacy of the Etruscan nation, the predecessors of Imperial Rome who saw their language and culture effectively destroyed when they were defeated by the predecessors of Caesar. While most of the story takes place in Rome there is a brief detour into the Maremma where the vivid and occasionally shocking tombs of the Etruscans have been excavated (and there is a real life Blue Demon, not that he’s easily seen).\n\nThe story also embraces more modern history, that of the tragic ‘Years of Lead’ when Italy was gripped by domestic terrorism from both left and right. The true nature of these outrages is now largely known. Their real-life provenance may come as a shock to those unfamiliar with recent Italian history which is why I provide a detailed author’s note at the end of the book. Truth sometimes really is stranger than fiction.\n\nI also wanted to delve a little into Costa’s family background. His father died in the first book of the series, A Season for the Dead. He always struck me as a very interesting character, and I know a number of readers felt the same way. So in this book, through the character of Dario Sordi, we learn more about him and begin to understand something of his fate, and how his own personality shaped that of his son.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for this book at Places[/stextbox]\n\nBut these are subterranean currents in what I hope is a fast-moving and exciting story, a tale of intrigue and political assassination of the cruellest kind. It’s no coincidence that Sordi reveals to Costa in the book that a gift he gave his late father comprised the two books Robert Graves wrote, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, about the dangers of life in the Imperial court of Rome two thousand years ago. I write about history not for history’s sake, but to try to point up how little human beings have changed over the millennia. Sordi’s fondness for the books finds him reading them towards the story’s climax, and this is no accident.\n\nI started writing this story in the summer of 2007 and finished it around July 2008. During that time real-life Italian politics changed enormously. I’m merely a storyteller. I foresaw none of this, nor any of the more recent shenanigans that have shaken the nation’s political classes of late, however much they may seem to mesh with certain aspects of the story.\n\nReviews\n\nPublishers Weekly\n\nA threatened terrorist attack during a G8 conference spells trouble both personal and professional for sovrintendente Nic Costa in Hewson’s assured eighth novel to feature the Roman police detective (after Dante’s Numbers). Italian president Dario Sordi, a former friend of Costa’s late father, asks Costa to look into the re-emergence of the Blue Demon, a strange terrorist group fascinated with Etruscan civilization, which is linked to past and present-day murders of bland civil servants and an imminent strike against the conference delegates. As Costa and his team of investigators examine the trails of evidence more closely, what they find does not match the official facts and reveals uneasy connections to the government and other agents that may point to a larger conspiracy. Well-drawn characters, a brisk pace, and some unexpected plot twists provide a satisfying read for the political thriller fan.\n\nGood Book Guide\n\nAnother of Hewson’s impeccably written thrillers with (once again) perfect balance between the exigencies of the thriller plot and the carefully conjured locales. Hewson’s Italian-set crime sequence has, as protagonist, the resourceful Nic Costa, and Costa’s stamping grounds — Venice and Rome — are conjured for the reader in novels that combine atmosphere with judicious plotting. Hewson fans will find The Blue Demon has the usual level of storytelling acumen – with Nic investigating the ritual murder of a politician during a G8 summit in Rome. The plotting has a satisfyingly labyrinthine complexity, proving that Hewson has lost none of his grip.\n\nYorkshire Evening Post\n\nThe Italian-based mysteries featuring detective Nic Costa have enabled David Hewson to carve out a prominent position in the crime fiction genre.  And rightly so:  his thoughtful plots and excellent characterisation are a formidable combination.  The Blue Demon – volume eight in the Costa series – finds Hewson at the top of his form’\n\nBooklist\n\n*Starred Review* Hewson’s eighth novel starring Rome police  sovrintendente Nic Costa returns to the rich themes that drove The  Garden of Evil (2008): the commingling of sensuality and perverted  idealism. In Garden, the subject was Caravaggio; here it is the  Etruscans, whose hedonistic, life-affirming civilization was crushed by  the Romans.\n\nAs always, Hewson builds an elaborate  plot, extending deep into ancient history but evoking fascinating  parallels with contemporary situations. Here, the sensitive but largely  ineffectual Italian president, himself sympathetic, like the terrorists,  to the Etruscan way of life, seems overwhelmed by the ruthless,  power-hungry conspirators he opposes, much as the Etruscans were  vanquished by the Romans’ “burning desire to own and rule.” But will  Costa and his determined band of ruggedly individual, antiauthoritarian  colleagues be able to alter the equation? In past reviews, we’ve called  this series a “superb mix of history, mystery, and humanity.” That  assessment is further reaffirmed with each new entry. –Bill Ott\n\nRichmond Times-Despatch\n\n…as Hewson spins his tale, the heroics of Nic’s squad lead to what may prove to be a significant departure in the author’s next installment. What will not change, though, given his body of work, is Hewson’s compelling storytelling and elegant prose, his ability to give depth to his characters and his knack for making Italy’s past part of each of his novels.\n\n“City of Fear” succeeds as a thriller, of course, but this is a novel of greater importance, grounded in history and geopolitics and the inherent falsehoods in each. The weapons-of-mass-destruction crowd might find this smart work of fiction instructive.','','','publish','open','open','','5284','','','2010-08-07 10:58:23','2010-08-07 10:58:23','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5284',5,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5282,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:27','2010-08-07 10:58:27','It’s a scorching summer in Rome. Sara Farnese sits in the Vatican Library. The streets are deserted. A man walks towards her. He is familiar. He is carrying a blood-stained bag…\nStefano’s left arm, the one holding the weapon, swept the table, swept everything on it, the precious volume of Apicius, her expensive notebook computer, down to the hard marble floor with a clatter. He said in a loud voice that was half crazy, half dead, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.’\nAs 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 begins to see a pattern in the killings that follow, murders that seem to mimic the grisly martyrdoms of the early Church.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s notes, photos and maps for A Season for the Dead at Places[/stextbox]\n\nRacked by personal anxiety over his dying father, Costa starts on the long journey to uncover the truth about these horrific crimes, whatever the cost, whatever the pain. From the inner quarters of the Vatican, desperate to hide a financial embarrassment, to the poorer, squalid bed-sits where the city’s immigrants try to eke out a living, Costa takes on any who crosses his path, however influential, however damaging the cost to his career.\n\nShunned as the son of a Communist, treated with suspicion by many of those around him, Costa relies on his own intelligence and integrity to find a way into the life of the mysterious Sara Farnese, and unlock the key to the case. But it’s a journey that comes with a terrible risk, and a cost he can never foresee.\n\nReviews\n\nBookReporter.Com\n\n‘…breathtaking… a dark delight, a story that one is compelled to read at one sitting while simultaneously wishing it will never end.’\n\nPublisher’s Weekly\n\nOutsized, eccentric characters, a complex story and an abundance of historical detail make this engrossing book more than just another cookie-cutter, religious-nut serial killer thriller.\n\nWashington Post\n\nA Season for the Dead, like The Da Vinci Code, is a thriller that takes an unflattering look at the Catholic Church, but it is better written and more sophisticated than Dan Brown’s phenomenal bestseller… The books differ, too, in that Hewson, far more than Brown or most thriller writers, has a serious concern for character.\n\nHewson gives us lyrical moments (during a storm, “the city looked like the bowl of some fantastic fountain designed by a drunken Bernini”) and bizarre moments, as when the killer, in clerical robes, awaiting a victim, listens on headphones to Cannonball Adderley’s great recording of “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” the point being that he has none. Amid revelations of police corruption, unexpected parentage, incest and betrayal, Hewson concocts a climactic scene in a little church called San Luigi dei Francesi…\n\nLit by candles, Caravaggio’s painting of the martyrdom of Saint Matthew gazes down from the wall (”the naked madman murdering the prone Matthew on the ground, sword raised, ready to deliver the final blow”). One crazed character “stumbled forward, colliding with terrified bodies in the darkness, yelling every obscenity he could think of, screaming his father’s name, begging the black maw of the nave to give up his body for vengeance.”\n\nLet me tell you, this is great stuff. A Season for the Dead, if sometimes blissfully over the top, is intelligent entertainment… Praise be!\n\nDallas Morning News\n\nMr Hewson’s suspenseful, fascinating mystery has an appealing detective and many complex characters on both sides of the law. Twisting and turning through Italian history and art, Nic Costa’s first case gives the serial murder mystery a new look.\n\nChattanooga Times Free Press, Tennessee\n\nThis enthralling story has it all: believable heroes, villains and even minor characters, exotic setting, history, religion, gruesome violence and steamy sex. Best of all, it’s so seamlessly put together that time flies as you flip pages to get to the end. Atmospheric and captivating, Hewson’s novel has all the elements needed for the complete thriller-reading experience. This is one not to miss.\n\nRocky Mountain News\n\nThere will be inevitable comparisons between this novel and The Da Vinci Code because of the Italian setting, the Vatican connection and the Caravaggio association. But A Season for the Deaddoes not expose artistic or religious frauds nor attempt to rewrite history. This is, instead, a complicated and engrossing mystery so compelling that it begs for a one-night reading.\n\nThe good news is that this is only the first novel to star Nic Costa. Hewson said in a recent interview that he created Costa as “a good guy, an unfinished, slightly naive, innocent person … a character who was in transition.” In a proposed six-book series, he will follow the policeman and his cohorts through other adventures as they attempt not only to solve crimes but deal honestly with a society that is not always honest itself.”Most of my books aren’t whodunits; they’re more whydunits,” Hewson explained. And that is just what makes them so fascinating.\n\nStar Tribune, Minneapolis\n\nThis atmospheric thriller begins in the Vatican library and winds around the ancient streets and churches of Rome. Detective Nic Costa is working on a series of gruesome murders that mimics the martyrdom of early Christian saints – and seems to revolve around the mysterious Sara Farnese, a professor of Early Christian history. Costa finds himself drawn to her cool beauty as well. Hewson’s absorbing series debut features a memorable cast of fully human characters, imagines the distorted mind of a serial killer and takes a chilling glimpse into the Vatican’s less-than-godly dealings with the secular world.\n\nLibrary Journal\n\nIt’s a suspenseful thriller, cleverly plotted with great characters and a real look at the back streets of Rome and the darker streets of the Vatican.\n\nOklahaman\n\n… a delicious and compelling view of the public art of Rome and the private intrigue of the Vatican. Recommended for most popular fiction collections; blooming Costa fans will be pleased to know that Hewson plans a series of novels featuring the detective.\n\nMystery Lovers.Com\n\nA fast-paced tour of Rome with a nice combo of serial killer thriller and Vatican conspiracy novel.\n\nDeadly Pleasures\n\nWhat makes Hewson worth reading is not only the well-realized setting, but also, to Americans, the exotic European characters, especially the two Italian cops. The action is well paced, the plot nicely twisted, the characters often chameleon-like, and the setting is definitely fascinating for many readers. Overall, this is a well written mystery with some real surprises at the end.\n\nBirmingham Post\n\nDavid Hewson… has written mysteries set abroad before now, especially Spain, and is one of several crime writers opting for an Italian setting these days. On this form, Hewson is certainly the leader of the pack.\n\nPublishing News\n\nThe first in a promising Italian crime series set in Rome … Hewson’s way with the Roman milieu is as cutting edge as his adroit narrative.\n\nSunday Mercury\n\nAn oddball detective mistrusted by his bosses, a beautiful woman, the elegant backdrop of Rome and sinister goings-on in the Vatican all add up to a new spin on the serial killer tale…All of this works not simply because of the frenetic plot but because Hewson has two beguiling, fascinating characters to hold our interest… (he) has a lightness of touch, an eye for the macabre and an understanding that you can’t beat the old fatal attraction between an all-too-human cop and a beautiful woman.','','','publish','open','open','','5282','','','2010-08-07 10:58:27','2010-08-07 10:58:27','',3302,'http://davidhewson.wordpress.com/?p=5282',12,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5283,1,'2010-08-07 10:58:32','2010-08-07 10:58:32','Available in a new and fully revised edition from Pan Macmillan, November 2010\n\nHoly Week in Seville… and a murderer is loose. Academic Maria Gutierrez can see something in his ways that the police are missing. But her insight does nothing to help her popularity in the force-and draws her to the attention of the killer.\n\nThe Angel Brothers, two controversial modern artists, are found dead in a southern Spanish city, in a killing that emulates a famous painting. Visiting academic Maria Gutierrez was supposed to be an observer to the police investigation. But her own past in the city soon puts her one step ahead of the cops… and in the killer’s sights.\n\nTranslated into many languages, and a continuing summer hit in Germany, Semana Santa was first published in 1996 and marked my world debut as a novelist with a dark and powerful tale set in a region of Europe most English language writers ignored at the time. The story was later made into a movie with Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez, marketed in the US as Angel of Death.\n\nI’ve now rewritten the book, placing the story in real-life Seville and introducing some new elements, and will be republished as Death in Seville by Pan Macmillan in autumn 2010. Many thanks to all of you who went out and bought the reissue of The Cemetery of Secrets since it was the success of that revived book that helped make this possible.\n\nNow available on audio\nThanks to my very enthusiastic audio publisher you can now get this book in the original edition on audio, beautifully narrated by Sean Barrett. 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It appears we were hacked and injected with some rather dumb kind of malware.\n\nI\'ve been looking into how this happened and frankly come up with no good answers at all. Nor did my hosting service. So everything is now moved to <a href=\"http://www.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">wordpress.com </a>where malware should definitely be a thing of the past. The site should look pretty much the same though I\'m happy to say -- and apologies again for any inconvenience.\n\nGiven that we now run entirely on Wordpress and use a stock theme I should probably have done this ages ago frankly.','A new home, sans malware','','publish','open','open','','sorry-for-the-malware-were-now-at-a-new-home','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5309',0,'post','',0),(5315,1,'2010-08-07 19:32:22','2010-08-07 19:32:22','','David Hewson','','inherit','open','open','','image-of-david-hewson11','','','2010-08-07 19:32:22','2010-08-07 19:32:22','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/image-of-david-hewson11.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5351,1,'2010-08-08 11:28:19','2010-08-08 11:28:19','CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 96','bluethumb','','inherit','open','open','','bluethumb','','','2010-08-08 11:28:19','2010-08-08 11:28:19','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/bluethumb.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5352,1,'2010-08-08 11:35:16','2010-08-08 11:35:16','.entry img {\nborder:none;\n}\n\na {\ntext-decoration:none;\n}\n\na:hover {\nborder-bottom:1px dotted;\n}\n\n.post .title {\nwidth:100%;\nposition:relative;\ncolor:#006692;\nborder-bottom:1px solid #e7e7e7;\nfont-size:32px;\nmargin:0 0 30px;\npadding:0 0 25px;\n}\n\n.post .title a:link,.post .title a:visited {\ncolor:#006692;\n}','safecss','','publish','open','open','','safecss','','','2010-08-08 11:35:16','2010-08-08 11:35:16','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/safecss/safecss/',0,'safecss','',0),(5357,1,'2010-08-08 11:42:48','2010-08-08 11:42:48','','Bio','','publish','open','open','','bio-2','','','2010-08-08 11:42:48','2010-08-08 11:42:48','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5357',29,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5409,1,'2010-08-08 15:02:53','2010-08-08 15:02:53','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. Crossing centuries, encompassing music, passion and murder, Lucifer’s Shadow gained the ‘highest possible recommendation’ from Bookreporter.com and was hailed as ‘one of the best of 2004? by Deadly Pleasures. Unavailable in the UK for several years, it is now available in a revised edition from Pan Macmillan as The Cemetery of Secrets. The fourth Nic Costa book, The Lizard’s Bite, is a companion piece to this book, featuring some of the same characters.\n\nFrom the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the city’s mystery. An earnest young academic, Daniel has come for a summer job cataloguing a private collector’s library.\n\nBut 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.\n\nWith 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.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s photos, notes and maps for The Cemetery of Secrets at Places[/stextbox]\n\nSeparated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal, and danger collide. Sweeping the reader 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, the story builds to a shattering crescendo-and one last, breathtaking surprise.\n\n…a reassuring sense of solid research underlying the descriptions of Venice, past and present. Hewson handles the two storylines of this brisk, intelligent thriller with aplomb, using each to counterpoint the other in a way that is entirely appropriate to a plot that has so much to do with music. Con brio, one might say. The Spectator\n\nRichly enjoyable, sophisticated and beguiling entertainment. Sunday Times','','','publish','open','open','','5409','','','2010-08-08 15:02:53','2010-08-08 15:02:53','',3320,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5409',15,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5438,1,'2010-08-08 20:20:24','2010-08-08 20:20:24','','DHthumb','','inherit','open','open','','dhthumb','','','2010-08-08 20:20:24','2010-08-08 20:20:24','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dhthumb.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5439,1,'2010-08-08 20:37:00','2010-08-08 20:37:00','Confession. I just talked to a couple of friends who watched the movie of <em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. </em>They liked it. Had I watched it, they asked?\n\nWell, kind of. I turned it on during my recent travels on a plane. I was enjoying it a lot. Then I got a bit uncomfortable about the first brutal episode of sexual assault. Then we got to the bit with the handcuffs and the beatings and the… No. Sorry. I couldn’t get past that. I’m sure it’s a great movie. But I did not want to watch a fictional actress going through that kind of humiliation, even though I know she gets her own back later on.\n\nWould I have felt that way ten, twenty years ago? I don’t know and I wish I did. My own writing has become less graphic and less reliant on shock over the years. Is that age, acquiescence, a hardening of the spiritual arteries or just me trying to make the same point but through more subtle and less graphic means?\n\nPossibly all or a bit of all those things. But I suspect the truth is I simply find explicit scenes of any kind rather tiresome these days. There was nothing in that movie that wasn’t in Kubrick’s <em>A Clockwork Orange. </em>But that was forty years ago and genuinely shocking. Now I find myself confronted with these scenes and thinking, ‘Yes, I <em>know</em> it’s like that. Your point is what exactly?’\n\nIt’s a writer’s duty to shock from time to time. But to do that do we have to be shocking ourselves? Sometimes I guess. Not always.','Do you have to be shocking in order to shock?','','publish','open','open','','do-you-have-to-be-shocking-in-order-to-shock','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/do-you-have-to-be-shocking-in-order-to-shock/',0,'post','',0),(5400,1,'2010-08-09 08:50:00','2010-08-09 07:50:00','A rather large magazine was hunting for an author to express an opinion about ebooks the other day. I was asked, perhaps because I spent a long time as a professional journalist. To be perfectly frank I think my hacking days are done. It’s a great and important job but it’s one I’m happy to leave to someone else now.\n\nAlso there was the slight problem of content. The magazine in question was looking for an author who was ‘unequivocally’ in favour of ebooks. No hesitation, no reservations. Just someone who thought, ‘’Yeah, bring it on.’\n\nAnd that’s not me for several reasons. Let’s count them.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nFirst, there’s the simple matter of ignorance. Ebooks may be all people seem to talk about on the other side of the Atlantic – though paper books still outsell them by a good margin overall. In the UK all we have are a handful of ereaders mainly aimed at the brave early adopter. Kindle won’t be here till the end of the month (and yes, mine is ordered because I am a part of this business and I want to know what they’re like).\n\nBut really we’ve scarcely begun in the UK. How many people have you seen using an ereader on a train or plane? Not many compared to the numbers sitting there with a book in their hands. To leap up in the air now and shout ‘Ebooks are the greatest’ seems downright odd to me. Not least because…\n\nWhat is an ebook anyway? Kindle? Sony? iPad? Epub or some other format? Plain text or one of these fancy multimedia singing and dancing books some people seem to think are the future (and probably are, but only for a certain kind of title)? As far as a simpleton like me can see we are now entering a standards/supplier/distributor war that makes VHS vs Betamax look like a minor argument down the pub. I have my own opinions about how that might turn out, but opinions are all they are. No one <em>knows </em>and being unequivocal about the unknown is not a smart thing to do<em>.</em>\n\nThirdly, there’s the question of industry fallout. I’m a professional writer. Let me put that more plainly: I pay my bills through the small amount of money that trickles back to me eventually from the proceeds of a sale of a book I’ve written. Authors are extraordinarily sensitive to shifts in the ecosystem of publishing, and ebooks threaten to be the biggest shift any of us will see in our lifetimes.\n\nIn the UK book prices are falling. They\'re actually substantially less than they were ten years ago. The routes to market for authors are dwindling. In the UK independent book stores are already an endangered species. The dominance of mass distribution channels seems to grow each year, and with it a shrinking of the already-thin margins that find their way back to authors. Add to that the plain fact that digital media will always lead to increased book theft (sorry, I won’t call it piracy, nor will I accept the odd belief that the ripping off of books is somehow good for sales) and you can see that this is a pretty tricky situation for those of us living off the words we write.\n\nAre there opportunities? You bet. Are people somehow turning away from popular fiction? I don’t think so, and it’s possible that ebooks will generate more sales than they will cost in other media and through digital theft.\n\nBut I don’t know. So I can be unequivocal about only two things: this is one hell of a leap into the dark. And given the choice between a little plastic screen and paper I’d still prefer a real book any day thank you.','Unequivocal on ebooks? 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Always have. But there is another side to this story and it’s worth mentioning. Back in the early 1980s I was arts correspondent on <em>The Times</em> and a very similar debate was going on about the loss of tax credits to movie companies – as you’ll note from Eastwood’s comment above they clearly didn’t stay away for long.\n\n<!--more-->The minister for the arts at the time was that very interesting and charming man Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Lord Gowrie in short. He was, I seem to recall, doing his bit for the cause but quietly made a very good point when I talked to him on the subject. The film business invariably, when it’s lobbying, talks of ‘support’. But in truth what we’re really dealing with here is something very different: subsidies. Saying to a movie producer, ‘Make your film here and we’ll make sure you pay less tax than you would somewhere else.’\n\nWhy subsidise movies more than, say, fast food or the banking industry or manufacturing, all industries that employ people<em> and stay around</em>? Where do you draw the line between art and mere commerce? Which would you rather have, spending on hospitals or tax credits for the movie business?\n\nIt’s never quite as simple as that, of course. But it’s not quite as simple as arts lobbies sometimes make out either. And some people could be forgiven for thinking that the message Eastwood (a man I adore for <em>Dirty Harry</em> and much else) is sending us from sunny Carmel is this...\n<blockquote>Hey guys, you may have great directors, actors, and all those other important movie industry personnel we need. But if you don\'t bribe us better than some other countries we just won\'t come...</blockquote>\nI wonder which way George Osborne is minded to go.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/eastwood-makes-plea-to-save-film-council-2047062.html\">Eastwood makes plea to save Film Council - News, Films - The Independent</a>','A subsidy by any other name...','','publish','open','open','','a-subsidy-by-any-other-name','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/a-subsidy-by-any-other-name/',0,'post','',0),(5528,1,'2010-08-10 09:55:00','2010-08-10 08:55:00','<p>I was listening to the <em>Today</em> programme yesterday when on came a brief and moving item: a last interview with Professor Tony Judt, a combative academic laid low by motor neurone disease. Judt was paralysed from the neck down yet made great sense and seemed entirely devoid of self pity.</p> <p>Then I read his obituary in the <em>Daily Telegraph. </em>You can see it in full below. How about this for a quote that sums up much of the state of the world today?</p> <blockquote> <p>The security and stability of post-Cold War Europe had bred its own problem: “This is the second generation of people who can’t imagine change except in their own lives, who have no sense of social collective public goods or services, who are just isolated individuals desperately striving to better themselves above everybody else,” he said earlier this year. </p></blockquote> <p>Quite. <p><a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7933264/Professor-Tony-Judt.html\">Professor Tony Judt - Telegraph</a></p>','A wonderful parting quote from Professor Tony Judt','','publish','open','open','','a-wonderful-parting-quote-from-professor-tony-judt','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/a-wonderful-parting-quote-from-professor-tony-judt/',0,'post','',0),(5450,1,'2010-08-10 14:07:00','2010-08-10 13:07:00','I was <a href=\"https://davidhewson.com/2010/08/08/do-you-have-to-be-shocking-in-order-to-shock/\" target=\"_blank\">wondering here the other day</a> whether I might be getting inured/bored by/allergic to violence in my impending dotage. It’s slightly amazing no one has yet come on and said, ‘Hang about. Didn’t you skin someone in the first Costa novel? Haven’t you left a big trail of bodies in your books over the years? Who are <em>you</em> to talk?’\n\nGood point. Here’s who I am: someone who’s done all those things and started to question them. The early ones anyway. There’s one particular murder in <em>The Sacred Cut</em> I regret. It was there because I thought a certain body count was expected of me. A few years after I was involved in one of those fruitless discussions with a movie producer about turning the book into a film and the producer rightly asked, ‘Did you need that?’\n\nNo. In fact it would have been a better book without it. So the later books have cut down on the violence, been less descriptive and, I hope, more effective as a result. What did I learn? This…\n\n<!--more-->For the most part I write about evil, of which violence is simply a part. And evil of itself is a pretty tedious subject, faceless, with no more shape or form or character than a cancerous cell, something capable of wreaking great harm but oddly inert and remote, even when it’s inside you. What fascinates me – and do not take this as advice to copy or as an admonishment for anyone who feels otherwise – is cause and effect. Where does evil come from? What legacy does it leave?\n\nThat’s it in a nutshell. <em>Seeing</em> evil – whether it’s some lingering graphic description of a murder or, as in the movie of <em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</em>, a sexual assault – tells me nothing about either. So why push this into the face of the audience? Why not simply tell them, succinctly and with sufficient detail – no more – what has taken place?\n\nLet me put it another way. Imagine the Tardis was real and you could pop back in time and take tea with Hitler. Yes, there would be many interesting things to learn from a conversation with the wicked old bastard, but primarily from an inquisitive, psychological point of view. What the man himself would think important – his ridiculous opinions, the dreadful ‘values’ that fired him – would surely be as tedious as hell, like being trapped next to some bore on an endless train journey.\n\nWhat made Hitler and what Hitler left us are subjects that will fire works of fiction for eternity. But the man himself is good for little more than a never-ending Youtube meme. Who cares about the old monster? Why would we?\n\nI don’t have to see some detailed recreation of the gas ovens working in Belsen to understand that inside this man, and his ability to fire an entire nation into a brief bout of insanity, lay something evil. I simply need to be reminded that Belsen took place.\n\nHere\'s a clip from that great movie <em>Rome, Open City</em> (Roma, città aperta) which makes, I think, the same point. It\'s one of the most agonising yet crucial points in the story, the revelation that one character has been tortured to death by the Nazis, leading to the execution of the key player, the priest Don Pietro. It\'s shocking, extraordinarily moving, and yet scarcely explicit. This film <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Open_City\" target=\"_blank\">was shot under the most extraordinary circumstances</a>, begun two months after the Germans had fled Rome. Watch how Don Pietro, the priest, briefly loses his temper -- and his religion -- when he realises the enormity of what has taken place, and then recovers his composure, and his faith. Would more brutality have emphasised the point or weakened it? The latter, for me anyway. Don\'t worry -- there is sound by the way. It just takes a little while for the dialogue to start.\n\n[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64MEeMYPT78]','Listening to Hitler','','publish','open','open','','listening-to-hitler','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/listening-to-hitler/',0,'post','',0),(5535,1,'2010-08-10 21:22:51','2010-08-10 20:22:51','','The Godfather','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-11','','','2010-08-10 21:22:51','2010-08-10 20:22:51','',5534,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rimg0077.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5536,1,'2010-08-10 21:30:42','2010-08-10 20:30:42','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-12','','','2010-08-10 21:30:42','2010-08-10 20:30:42','',5534,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rimg0078.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5537,1,'2010-08-10 21:31:19','2010-08-10 20:31:19','','puzo','','inherit','open','open','','puzo','','','2010-08-10 21:31:19','2010-08-10 20:31:19','',5534,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/puzo.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5534,1,'2010-08-10 21:34:49','2010-08-10 20:34:49','There\'s an argument you always get into when people who think book theft (aka piracy) is a good thing. I\'m not talking about borrowing books from a library here, or passing on a copy to a friend. I\'m talking about wholesale ripoffs of digital ebooks and audio online.\n\nAh, the piracy lobby says. None of this would happen if books weren\'t so expensive. Really? Here\'s the truth: books are cheaper than ever. I was just sorting through my book cases tonight and came across this...\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rimg0077.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5535\" title=\"The Godfather\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rimg0077.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" /></a>\n\nPublished in 1970, not long after the wonderful movie came out. Remember 1970? Probably not. I do, vaguely.\n\nIn 1970 the <a href=\"http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/hfrtable/up02043ab.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">average house price in Greater London </a>was £6,882 compared with<a href=\"http://www1.landregistry.gov.uk/assets/library/documents/hpi162009e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> £302,411 </a>in 2009.\n\nIn the US the median household income was <a href=\"http://www.1970sflashback.com/1970/Economy.asp\" target=\"_blank\">$8734</a> compared with <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income\" target=\"_blank\">$52,029</a> in 2008.\n\nHow much did my copy of <em>The Godfather </em>cost then?<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rimg0078.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5536\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rimg0078.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" /></a>\n\nAnd how much will it set you back at Amazon today?\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/puzo.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" title=\"puzo\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/puzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"309\" /></a>\n\nForty years on the price has, in real terms, fallen. And actually Puzo is at the higher end of the scale. Most of us sell for less than this -- my new paperback, <em>The Blue Demon</em>, lists at £6.99 but <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Demon-Nic-Costa/dp/033051251X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1281472308&amp;sr=8-1\">is actually available for £4.18. </a>\n\nWhatever reason people have for nicking books, it\'s not the price, honestly.','Inflation in the book business','','publish','open','open','','inflation-in-the-book-business','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5534',0,'post','',0),(5544,1,'2010-08-11 07:52:31','2010-08-11 06:52:31','Since I wrote my first novel in 1994 I’ve produced and collaborated in nineteen books,\ntranslated into more than twenty different languages. I’m doubtless best known for the Nic Costa series\nset in contemporary Rome.\n\nYou can also browse the standalone books here too, including the acclaimed recently-reissued standalone Venetian mystery The Cemetery of Secrets.\n\nAlso listed is my one non-fiction work, Saved, the history of an environmental campaign in mynative Kent, and collaborations with such writers as Jeffery Deaver and Lee Child.','','','publish','open','open','','5544','','','2010-08-11 07:52:31','2010-08-11 06:52:31','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5544',1,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5543,1,'2010-08-11 07:52:32','2010-08-11 06:52:32','It’s a scorching summer in Rome. Sara Farnese sits in the Vatican Library. The streets are deserted. A man walks towards her. He is familiar. He is carrying a blood-stained bag…\nStefano’s left arm, the one holding the weapon, swept the table, swept everything on it, the precious volume of Apicius, her expensive notebook computer, down to the hard marble floor with a clatter. He said in a loud voice that was half crazy, half dead, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.’\nAs 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 begins to see a pattern in the killings that follow, murders that seem to mimic the grisly martyrdoms of the early Church.\n\n[stextbox id=\"grey\" float=\"true\" align=\"right\"]Explore David’s notes, photos and maps for A Season for the Dead at Places[/stextbox]\n\nRacked by personal anxiety over his dying father, Costa starts on the long journey to uncover the truth about these horrific crimes, whatever the cost, whatever the pain. From the inner quarters of the Vatican, desperate to hide a financial embarrassment, to the poorer, squalid bed-sits where the city’s immigrants try to eke out a living, Costa takes on any who crosses his path, however influential, however damaging the cost to his career.\n\nShunned as the son of a Communist, treated with suspicion by many of those around him, Costa relies on his own intelligence and integrity to find a way into the life of the mysterious Sara Farnese, and unlock the key to the case. But it’s a journey that comes with a terrible risk, and a cost he can never foresee.\n\nReviews\n\nBookReporter.Com\n\n‘…breathtaking… a dark delight, a story that one is compelled to read at one sitting while simultaneously wishing it will never end.’\n\nPublisher’s Weekly\n\nOutsized, eccentric characters, a complex story and an abundance of historical detail make this engrossing book more than just another cookie-cutter, religious-nut serial killer thriller.\n\nWashington Post\n\nA Season for the Dead, like The Da Vinci Code, is a thriller that takes an unflattering look at the Catholic Church, but it is better written and more sophisticated than Dan Brown’s phenomenal bestseller… The books differ, too, in that Hewson, far more than Brown or most thriller writers, has a serious concern for character.\n\nHewson gives us lyrical moments (during a storm, “the city looked like the bowl of some fantastic fountain designed by a drunken Bernini”) and bizarre moments, as when the killer, in clerical robes, awaiting a victim, listens on headphones to Cannonball Adderley’s great recording of “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” the point being that he has none. Amid revelations of police corruption, unexpected parentage, incest and betrayal, Hewson concocts a climactic scene in a little church called San Luigi dei Francesi…\n\nLit by candles, Caravaggio’s painting of the martyrdom of Saint Matthew gazes down from the wall (”the naked madman murdering the prone Matthew on the ground, sword raised, ready to deliver the final blow”). One crazed character “stumbled forward, colliding with terrified bodies in the darkness, yelling every obscenity he could think of, screaming his father’s name, begging the black maw of the nave to give up his body for vengeance.”\n\nLet me tell you, this is great stuff. A Season for the Dead, if sometimes blissfully over the top, is intelligent entertainment… Praise be!\n\nDallas Morning News\n\nMr Hewson’s suspenseful, fascinating mystery has an appealing detective and many complex characters on both sides of the law. Twisting and turning through Italian history and art, Nic Costa’s first case gives the serial murder mystery a new look.\n\nChattanooga Times Free Press, Tennessee\n\nThis enthralling story has it all: believable heroes, villains and even minor characters, exotic setting, history, religion, gruesome violence and steamy sex. Best of all, it’s so seamlessly put together that time flies as you flip pages to get to the end. Atmospheric and captivating, Hewson’s novel has all the elements needed for the complete thriller-reading experience. This is one not to miss.\n\nRocky Mountain News\n\nThere will be inevitable comparisons between this novel and The Da Vinci Code because of the Italian setting, the Vatican connection and the Caravaggio association. But A Season for the Deaddoes not expose artistic or religious frauds nor attempt to rewrite history. This is, instead, a complicated and engrossing mystery so compelling that it begs for a one-night reading.\n\nThe good news is that this is only the first novel to star Nic Costa. Hewson said in a recent interview that he created Costa as “a good guy, an unfinished, slightly naive, innocent person … a character who was in transition.” In a proposed six-book series, he will follow the policeman and his cohorts through other adventures as they attempt not only to solve crimes but deal honestly with a society that is not always honest itself.”Most of my books aren’t whodunits; they’re more whydunits,” Hewson explained. And that is just what makes them so fascinating.\n\nStar Tribune, Minneapolis\n\nThis atmospheric thriller begins in the Vatican library and winds around the ancient streets and churches of Rome. Detective Nic Costa is working on a series of gruesome murders that mimics the martyrdom of early Christian saints – and seems to revolve around the mysterious Sara Farnese, a professor of Early Christian history. Costa finds himself drawn to her cool beauty as well. Hewson’s absorbing series debut features a memorable cast of fully human characters, imagines the distorted mind of a serial killer and takes a chilling glimpse into the Vatican’s less-than-godly dealings with the secular world.\n\nLibrary Journal\n\nIt’s a suspenseful thriller, cleverly plotted with great characters and a real look at the back streets of Rome and the darker streets of the Vatican.\n\nOklahaman\n\n… a delicious and compelling view of the public art of Rome and the private intrigue of the Vatican. Recommended for most popular fiction collections; blooming Costa fans will be pleased to know that Hewson plans a series of novels featuring the detective.\n\nMystery Lovers.Com\n\nA fast-paced tour of Rome with a nice combo of serial killer thriller and Vatican conspiracy novel.\n\nDeadly Pleasures\n\nWhat makes Hewson worth reading is not only the well-realized setting, but also, to Americans, the exotic European characters, especially the two Italian cops. The action is well paced, the plot nicely twisted, the characters often chameleon-like, and the setting is definitely fascinating for many readers. Overall, this is a well written mystery with some real surprises at the end.\n\nBirmingham Post\n\nDavid Hewson… has written mysteries set abroad before now, especially Spain, and is one of several crime writers opting for an Italian setting these days. On this form, Hewson is certainly the leader of the pack.\n\nPublishing News\n\nThe first in a promising Italian crime series set in Rome … Hewson’s way with the Roman milieu is as cutting edge as his adroit narrative.\n\nSunday Mercury\n\nAn oddball detective mistrusted by his bosses, a beautiful woman, the elegant backdrop of Rome and sinister goings-on in the Vatican all add up to a new spin on the serial killer tale…All of this works not simply because of the frenetic plot but because Hewson has two beguiling, fascinating characters to hold our interest… (he) has a lightness of touch, an eye for the macabre and an understanding that you can’t beat the old fatal attraction between an all-too-human cop and a beautiful woman.','','','publish','open','open','','5543','','','2010-08-11 07:52:32','2010-08-11 06:52:32','',3302,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5543',2,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5545,1,'2010-08-11 07:52:33','2010-08-11 06:52:33','Available in a new and fully revised edition from Pan Macmillan, November 2010\n\nHoly Week in Seville… and a murderer is loose. Academic Maria Gutierrez can see something in his ways that the police are missing. But her insight does nothing to help her popularity in the force-and draws her to the attention of the killer.\n\nThe Angel Brothers, two controversial modern artists, are found dead in a southern Spanish city, in a killing that emulates a famous painting. Visiting academic Maria Gutierrez was supposed to be an observer to the police investigation. But her own past in the city soon puts her one step ahead of the cops… and in the killer’s sights.\n\nTranslated into many languages, and a continuing summer hit in Germany, Semana Santa was first published in 1996 and marked my world debut as a novelist with a dark and powerful tale set in a region of Europe most English language writers ignored at the time. The story was later made into a movie with Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez, marketed in the US as Angel of Death.\n\nI’ve now rewritten the book, placing the story in real-life Seville and introducing some new elements, and will be republished as Death in Seville by Pan Macmillan in autumn 2010. Many thanks to all of you who went out and bought the reissue of The Cemetery of Secrets since it was the success of that revived book that helped make this possible.\n\nNow available on audio\nThanks to my very enthusiastic audio publisher you can now get this book in the original edition on audio, beautifully narrated by Sean Barrett. I’m grateful to everyone at WF Howes for making this possible','','','publish','open','open','','5545','','','2010-08-11 07:52:33','2010-08-11 06:52:33','',3320,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5545',3,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5546,1,'2010-08-11 07:52:34','2010-08-11 06:52:34','Now available as a multi-format eBook for Sony, Kindle and other readers. Only $4.95 without DRM. Click here for details.\n\nPalo Alto, northern California, 1975\n\nA child goes missing in northern California. Twenty years later, people want to know why, and the past begins to unravel for a group of former friends who thought they’d escaped it forever.\n\nSeattle 1995\n\nA group of students retire to a remote house to experiment with LSD. One, Michael Quinn, kidnaps a child. A body is found. And for the rest of the group the battle to escape justice begins.\n\nTwenty years on, with Quinn about to be unexpectedly released from jail, a mysterious young Englishwoman, Joni Lascelles, arrives in the city, asking questions about the kidnapping, unravelling the past for those who thought it was long dead. The horror of the past comes to engulf the present, leaving no-one untouched by its power. Turn by turn, shifting effortlessly between two eras twenty years apart, the story is played out with relentless compulsion to an overwhelming climax.\n\nEpiphany was my second book. It was completed it in the summer of 1995 while he was still waiting for Semana Santa to be published. At the time he was spending a lot of journalistic time visiting San Francisco and Seattle. The contrast between the two – California with its lost innocence, and Seattle with its hard, uncompromising Nineties materialism- was what provoked the book. It’s a complex, ambitious piece of work.\n\nI’m still pretty pleased with this work. I’ve written nothing quite like it since and, to be honest, it’s pretty damn scary. I’ve now taken a scalpel to the original and revised it from top to bottom. It’s been republished as an eBook on Smashwords for $4.95, in a variety of different formats for modern ereaders and PCs. This is very much an experiment on my part. I’d like to see what happens if an established author puts backlist out there this way. I’ll be telling you how it goes in the blog too.\n\nJohn Fowles on acid. The Guardian\n\nThe atmosphere of mystery, menace and guilt is sustained with great skill, building tension to a seismic explosion as ghoulish characters squirm to escape a relentless past returning to destroy them. Daily Telegraph\n\nDavid Hewson has an altogether wider range of literary and cultural reference than most thrillers. Impressive… Esquire','','','publish','open','open','','5546','','','2010-08-11 07:52:34','2010-08-11 06:52:34','',3263,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5546',4,'nav_menu_item','',0),(5548,1,'2010-08-11 09:10:11','2010-08-11 08:10:11','','MP900309021[1]','','inherit','open','open','','mp9003090211','','','2010-08-11 09:10:11','2010-08-11 08:10:11','',5516,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/mp9003090211.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5516,1,'2010-08-11 14:31:00','2010-08-11 13:31:00','<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5548\" title=\"MP900309021[1]\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mp9003090211.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" />Ah, modern life. One long sequence of distractions. Do you write something hopefully worthwhile or catch up on some news? Fire off a line on Twitter or upload a few silly photos to Facebook?\n\nThese challenges seem such an integral part of the day that it’s hard to remember we never used to be dogged by them. I was a professional writer before the internet came along and changed everything. I remember walking stories down to the local office services company to have them faxed to America. Arguing with a movie producer about why I couldn\'t, honestly, fax an entire 400-page book to someone in Hollywood. Waiting, for days sometimes, in order to get the right person on the phone.\n\nBefore the web our days were shaped by what we couldn’t do. Now they’re controlled and shackled by the myriad things we can.\n\nMy response to this has probably been yours. Cut down on all this stuff. Do less of it and try to prioritise. Ration the digital noise around you. And know what? I was wrong. There’s an easier way, one I’ve been trying for a few months now. The routine is dead simple. Just stop things altogether and wait to see if you miss them enough to bring them back into your life.\n\nHow did I do?\n\n<!--more-->\n\nMy first activity kill was one of the toughest. I worked for both <strong><em>The Times </em>and <em>Sunday Times </em></strong>for many years. We take the papers in the house. But for more than a decade I’ve been in the habit of reading news mostly online. <em>The Times</em> was how I started my day (I’m reaching an age where you have to check the obits regularly to see if there’s anyone there you know, yourself included.)\n\nThen along came the paywall. I fully understand why Rupert Murdoch wants to make money out of news online. Newspapers have to somehow or they’ll cease to exist. I signed up for the free trial of the paywall. When that lapsed I deleted all the Times bookmarks in my browser and said to myself: see how long you can stick it. This is not about money. The paywall fees are modest. It’s more about time. I don’t want one more password and logon screen to manage. I’m fed up with those already. And you know what? You can get pretty much everything the <em>Times</em> sites provide elsewhere for free.\n\nThat was a good few weeks ago. How many times have I been tempted to sneak back in and pay to go back in the club?\n\nHand on heart: not once. Sorry Rupert, but I am gone.\n\nMy second ‘kill it don’t ration it’ experiment was <strong>Facebook</strong>. <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2010/04/25/bye-bye-facebook/\" target=\"_blank\">I quit back in April</a>, mainly over the shocking privacy issues that were then becoming apparent. Facebook is a classic example of how rationing doesn’t work. If you use it you have to go in there regularly. I can’t remember how many ‘friends’ I had at the end but it was a lot. Most were silent, a few – genuine friends in the main – were lovely, and a minority were a real pain, nagging for free books, stupid games or something else. Perhaps there was a way to filter out some of the nonsense but I never found it, and looking for those answers just took even more time.\n\nDo I miss Facebook? No, but I regret losing contact with some of the people there. Something like Facebook ought to exist. It just isn’t Facebook. Will I ever go back? I doubt it. I value all that extra time in the day. Facebook\'s true worth seems to lie in its ability to be an address book spanning continents so that people can keep touch with their (real) friends over the years. If I was twenty two and just out of college I\'d doubtless appreciate that. But I\'m not and I don\'t.\n\nMy final experiment was with <strong>Apple</strong>. I’ve been using Macs since they came out in 1984 but, as I’ve outlined here in various posts, I’ve grown disillusioned with the company, and to some extent their products, in recent years. I really wanted a small laptop and Steve Jobs thought I shouldn’t have one. I craved a better word processor and Apple Pages never quite got there.\n\nSo I bought a cheap laptop and downloaded the beta – now release version – of Word 2010 for Windows. My eyes were opened. Both were lovely, and absolutely fitted the way I wanted to work.\n\nAt the time I had a Mac mini desktop, a MacBook Pro laptop and a MacBook Air. All of them, up to a point, capable of dual booting to Windows if I wanted. I tried this and it worked OK, with a few caveats. But there was always the temptation there, the question hanging in the air: which do I use?\n\nThis got tiresome so I went out and bought an HP desktop, a little Acer 11.3 inch tablet PC and a larger more substantial Lenovo laptop for more serious editing (all three cost me less than a single new MacBook Pro 15-inch). The Macs have never been booted up since and will soon find their way onto eBay or to a relative.\n\nDo I miss anything? <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scrivener</a>. That’s all. And it’s an open secret a version of that is on the way for Windows.\n\nThis was an interesting experiment all round. I’m now heartily in favour of dumping stuff instead of trying to keep it ticking over. All these decisions could be simply reversed if I wanted. So why dither?\n\nI also recalled a story about my dear old Dad. He was fifty three when I was born, and I was a surprise to say the least. We lived in a council house in Yorkshire, dead poor, with him travelling to a night job in the steel factory by moped. His one luxury was cigarettes. He loved them and had since he was a teenager. On the day I was born he smoked his last one and said, ‘They\'re done with now.’\n\nAnd never smoked another one, though he got through an awful lot of Polo mints.\n\nGiving up Facebook, one single source of online news, and a brand of computer has to be a piece of cake next to that.','Sometimes it&#039;s good to say no','','publish','open','open','','good-to-say-no','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/life-rationing-forget-it-and-just-say-no/',0,'post','',0),(5553,1,'2010-08-12 14:18:00','2010-08-12 13:18:00','Here’s an email that I get, in one form or another, at regular intervals, as do most of my peers I suspect. This one is from Ian Smith and he writes…\n<blockquote>Hi David. When can we expect the next in the series? Having read all of them so far I am in desperate need of a Costa Fix (not one of the coffee variety either!). Will we ever see Nic Costa on the big screen?\n\nKeep on producing the good work.\n\nRegards, Ian</blockquote>\nThanks for the kind words, Ian. Let me deal with the simple part first. I’m not dead keen on Costa on the big screen to be honest. These books are each a standalone story but they form part of a broader tale, one that spans the series, that of a bunch of ordinary decent people struggling to find their way through a difficult world. A movie would, at best, be a single snapshot of that process. I’d much rather that any adaptation reflect the broader picture which would probably call for TV rather than cinema, not that there’s anything to announce on either front at the moment.\n\nNow to the ‘when is the next book in the series?’ question which is a touch more complicated.\n\n<!--more-->This year I’ve got two books out, the eighth Costa, <em>The Blue Demon </em>(or <em>City of Fear</em> in the US), already published, and on November 5 the standalone <em>Death in Seville. </em>I had two books last year too – <em>Dante’s Numbers</em> and <em>The Cemetery of Secrets. </em>\n\n<em></em>This is unusual for most authors. If you’re a giant name – Lee Child or Jeffery Deaver say – you can simply pen two books in a single year and the trade will lap them up. Those of us further down the food chain generally get just one crack at publication a year. I’ve been the exception of late because <em>Death in Seville</em> and <em>The Cemetery of Secrets</em> are reissues of my earlier novels. They have come out again as trade paperbacks, not the usual hardback then paperback route. They’re exceptions; next year it’s back to one book a year, a completely new one.\n\nWhy do publishers generally want only one book a year from an author? I can’t really answer for them but I think the answer is that it’s hard for everyone, readers, publishers, and book stores, to keep up with much more than that. There are an awful lot of new titles published each year. Publishing is a complex business involving different formats, different media, territories and rights. There’s a lot of post-writing work – editing, revision, proofing, generating covers and publicity campaigns. Oh, and there’s also the plain fact that most of us are stretched writing one book a year. Trying to turn out more than that and keep up the quality is quite a challenge.\n\nBack list reissues aren\'t the only exceptions. Shorter books in genres such as young adult can escape the annual cut-off. But if you’re writing full length general popular fiction – which is where I sit – one book a year is usually the rule. Next year’s is <em>The Fallen Angel</em>, out in February in the UK and May in the US, about which I’ll be posting more material, including a video, closer to publication time.\n\nAnnual publication does pose some unexpected problems for an author. I\'m usually two books ahead of you so the one for 2012 is done too. I haven’t yet started writing what I think of as my \'new book\'. It won’t be out till 2013 in any case, so it doesn’t need to be delivered until the end of 2011 or so, though I’ll doubtless finish it before then.\n\nCan I really picture a book that far out? Not terribly well if I\'m honest. All I can do is decide what I want to write and go for it, regardless of when it will appear. And this is just one slot, remember, the only chance I get that year. Picking the right book is pretty important. When you’ve been in this business for a while the question ceases to be ‘What kind of book shall I write?’ and turns into the more difficult ‘Which one?’ out of a number of very varied ideas.\n\nStill mulling that question right now if I\'m honest.','Some home truths about publication schedules','','publish','open','open','','some-home-truths-about-publication-schedules','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/some-home-truths-about-publication-schedules/',0,'post','',0),(5572,1,'2010-08-17 08:59:33','2010-08-17 07:59:33','','one2.jpg','','inherit','open','open','','one2-jpg','','','2010-08-17 08:59:33','2010-08-17 07:59:33','',5574,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/one2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5573,1,'2010-08-17 08:59:37','2010-08-17 07:59:37','','one2_thumb.jpg','','inherit','open','open','','one2_thumb-jpg','','','2010-08-17 08:59:37','2010-08-17 07:59:37','',5574,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/one2_thumb.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5574,1,'2010-08-17 11:34:00','2010-08-17 10:34:00','<div class=\"zemanta-img\">\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" caption=\"OneNote in action\"]<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Office_OneNote_2007.png\"><img title=\"Microsoft Office OneNote Screenshot\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Microsoft_Office_OneNote_2007.png/300px-Microsoft_Office_OneNote_2007.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Office OneNote Screenshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n</div>\nA friend of mine asked me over the weekend, ‘So are you sticking with this Windows thing? I mean <em>really</em> giving up on the Mac after all those years?’\n\nYup, I said.\n\nThere was an email sigh and she gasped, ‘I sometimes wonder if I ever really knew you.’\n\nTrust me, when the Mac provided what I wanted as a writer I was the first to shout its praise from the rooftop. When something else better comes along I’m over the fence in a flash. I do this for a living. No time for sentiment. I want the <em>best</em> tools around because the best will save me time and effort. And the best right now, for the way I work, isn’t the Mac. It’s Windows with Office 2010.\n\nI switched four months ago and there’s not a day when I’m tempted to go back. Word 2010 may not be Scrivener but it’s close enough to make the other parts of the equation – being able to choose the computer I want, not the one Steve Jobs wants to sell me – closers on the deal.\n\nAnd then there’s the odd piece of software called <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Microsoft OneNote\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/FX100487701033.aspx\">OneNote</a> 2010, something most Office buyers get and probably ignore, as I did in the beginning. Here’s the truth: OneNote is a tough thing to understand when you first see it. You can’t decide whether it’s too simple for words or too complex to be worth the trouble. In a way it’s both and much, much more. It’s taken me a while to understand this but OneNote is the Aladdin’s Cave for someone like me, a lone wolf, constantly dealing with a stream of information, possibilities, ideas and tedious everyday documents.\n\nNow I’ve wrestled this thing to the ground I simply don’t know how I managed without it. Here’s why.<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/one2.jpg\"><img class=\"wlDisabledImage\" style=\"display:inline;border:0;\" title=\"one2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/one2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"one2\" width=\"489\" height=\"367\" /></a>\n\nThis my OneNote – click to see it bigger. There’s more going on here than meets the eye but some of the things I have in OneNote are a bit secret which is why they’re either blanked out here or disappeared altogether.\n\nOneNote is a filing cabinet. You have notebooks – think of them as different cabinets – sections and tabs, the latter two being sub-divisions of an individual cabinet. I have a general personal notebook that handles over all ideas, documents for events and travel, recipes I’ve picked up, anything I’ve collected over the web. Then I have separate notebooks for different writing projects, each broken down into sensible sections – locations, characters, outlines, research and the book diary I keep for each.\n\nHere’s the key to OneNote. You keep <em>everything</em> there. Even stuff you don’t think you need. It’s a filing cabinet, right? A digital one too. You can find stuff very easily simply by searching on a word. So why throw something away?\n\nThe section you see here is the one I created to do research for the Venetian masks paper I published here yesterday. Dead simple to understand. Each of those pages addresses a specific topic. Sometimes the notes are original. Sometimes they’re from books  or the web. You get material from the web straight into OneNote either by printing directly to it or, if you use IE, hitting the ‘send to OneNote’ button. If you want to grab stuff really quickly just hit Windows-key S while OneNote is running. You can then screen grab any part of the screen in front of you and store that in OneNote too. It won’t just be a screen grab though – OneNote will ‘read’ the text so you can find it by searching very easily too.\n\nNow I’ve got the hang of this thing I make a point of storing every last item I can think of there. If a travel document comes in the thing no longer stays just in email. A copy gets bunged in the travel folder too. Event engagements, briefing notes, all that practical stuff gets stored here. Basic book outlines, character notes, snatches of possible dialogue, names, places, photos… They all go in.\n\nDoes this look too complicated? That’s probably because I have a lot of notebooks open. No need. You can just close the others and work with one alone. It does take a while to comprehend what this thing is capable of. But once it gets you you’re hooked (and the fact there will be no OneNote for the next version of Office for Mac is one more reason for me not to return to Windows).\n\nAnd then there are the tools for monitoring writing and revision, which are simply amazing. But I’ll save them for another day.\n\nHere’s the final clincher. You can store all this material and share it between your different computers without a second thought. All your notebooks can be stored in a single folder. Install the <a href=\"http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta\" target=\"_blank\">free Live Sync service</a> that comes with a Windows Live account. Set up that folder to sync between your PCs and (though there is a 2 gb limit on this) to back up to your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Windows Live SkyDrive\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://skydrive.live.com/\">Skydrive</a> too.\n\nFrom now on your computers stay in sync with the same OneNote notebooks <em>and</em> you keep a secure backup copy on the web too.\n\nI’ve been messing with information tools trying to achieve all this for years, from Devonthink to Together, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Evernote\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.evernote.com\">Evernote</a> to all manner of stuff. Nothing comes close to OneNote. Consider me sold.','OneNote: a place to keep everything','','publish','open','open','','onenote-a-place-to-keep-everything','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/onenote-a-place-to-keep-everything/',0,'post','',0),(5582,1,'2010-08-17 18:36:18','2010-08-17 17:36:18','','9781849015677.jpg','','inherit','open','open','','9781849015677-jpg','','','2010-08-17 18:36:18','2010-08-17 17:36:18','',5584,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/9781849015677.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5583,1,'2010-08-17 18:36:21','2010-08-17 17:36:21','','9781849015677_thumb.jpg','','inherit','open','open','','9781849015677_thumb-jpg','','','2010-08-17 18:36:21','2010-08-17 17:36:21','',5584,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/9781849015677_thumb.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5584,1,'2010-08-17 18:36:23','2010-08-17 17:36:23','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/9781849015677.jpg\"><img class=\"wlDisabledImage\" style=\"display:inline;border:0;\" title=\"9781849015677\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/9781849015677_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"9781849015677\" width=\"163\" height=\"244\" align=\"right\" /></a>I’m flattered to tell you that I’ve been picked for inclusion in the 2011 Best of British Crime anthology edited by Maxim Jakubowski. The book <a href=\"http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&amp;book=the_mammoth_book_of_best_british_crime_8_9781849015677_paperback\" target=\"_blank\">will be published by Constable and Robinson</a> on April 24 next year. My story is <em>The Circle</em>, a curious tale about a journey on the London underground.\n\nI will be in some pretty swish company I must say. The full list of contributors is as follows: Sheila Quigley, Nigel Bird, Jay Stringer, Paul D. Brazill, Adrian Magson, Colin Bateman, Gerard Brennan, Matthew J. Elliott, Andrew Taylor, Lin Anderson, Christopher Brookmyre, Ray Banks, Declan Burke, Liza Cody, Simon Kernick, Stuart MacBride, Allan Guthrie, Ian Rankin (two stories, including a new Rebus), Nick Quantrill, Edward Marston, Nicholas Royle, Zoe Sharp, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Peter Lovesey, A.L. Kennedy, Roz Southey, Phil Lovesey, David Hewson, Amy Myers, Marilyn Todd, Peter Turnbull, Keith McCarthy, Alexander McCall Smith, Stephen Booth, Denise Mina, Mick Herron, Kate Atkinson and Louise Welsh.\n\nCoo!','Best of British Crime 2011','','publish','open','open','','best-of-british-crime-2011','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/best-of-british-crime-2011/',0,'post','',0),(5664,1,'2010-08-25 08:30:22','2010-08-25 07:30:22','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-22','','','2010-08-25 08:30:22','2010-08-25 07:30:22','',5663,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fox.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5663,1,'2010-08-25 08:33:00','2010-08-25 07:33:00','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fox.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5664\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"314\" /></a>\n\nWe were up early this morning and my wife looked out of the back garden, down to the orchard... and saw this chap snoozing happily there.\n\nHe seems to love the windfall apples, and I don\'t begrudge him. Plenty to go around. Is he sleepy because a few have fermented and turned a touch alcoholic? No idea. But he\'s a beautiful young fox, and a real pleasure to see.\n\nWould be nice if he\'d take a rabbit or two with him on the way out though...','A visitor to the orchard','','publish','open','open','','a-visitor-to-the-orchard','','','2011-01-27 22:47:41','2011-01-27 22:47:41','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5663',0,'post','',0),(5654,1,'2010-08-25 09:10:05','2010-08-25 08:10:05','<div class=\"zemanta-img\">\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"242\" caption=\"Sutton Hoo helmet\"]<a href=\"http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sutton.hoo.helmet.png\"><img title=\"Helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial 1, England.\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Sutton.hoo.helmet.png\" alt=\"Helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial 1, England.\" width=\"242\" height=\"363\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n</div>\nIn theory I like TV programmes about history. So I tuned into last night\'s BBC <em><a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6xzx\" target=\"_blank\">Treasures of the Anglo Saxons</a></em> expecting a treat.\n\nBlimey O\'Reilly was I wrong there.\n\nBBC history progs used to work on a simple but effective format: find an intelligent, normally academic commentator, take them to the pretty places and objects that form their subject then let them give you a short, plain language lecture that leaves ignorant civilians like me better informed.\n\nNo longer. Now, it seems, our attention span has grown so short and weak we have to be <em>entertained</em> along the way. You know what TV entertainment means, don\'t you? In terms of history it means this...\n\n<!--more-->Dr Nina Ramirez, an art historian Oxford-based academic, is our guide. Ramirez surely knows her stuff. She recites <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Beowulf\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf\">Beowulf</a> in the original utterly incomprehensible language, with sub titles. Given she speaks very good English and English speakers aren\'t normally sub-titled for a programme that\'s in, er, English you have to ask yourself: why? Oh, that\'s right. To show she\'s an academic, because only clever people would know how to pronounce that stuff.\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Beowulf: I can talk like him, can you?\"]<a href=\"http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beowulf_and_the_dragon.jpg\"><img title=\"An illustration of Beowulf fighting the dragon...\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Beowulf_and_the_dragon.jpg/300px-Beowulf_and_the_dragon.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of Beowulf fighting the dragon...\" width=\"300\" height=\"369\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n</div>\nShe also, quite bizarrely, wears high heels that make her totter and teeter along the way, especially on muddy fields which are not, as far I\'m aware, conventional stiletto territory, at least not of the shoe type.\n\nThis is all \'entertainment\' you see. I don\'t doubt for one moment that Nina Ramirez knows her stuff and wouldn\'t dream of talking to her Oxford students in such a subtly condescending way. But we\'re TV viewers. We need something to stop us going into the kitchen and reaching for the kettle.\n\nThe Saxons had lots of things that could do this and she showed us quite a few. The Staffordshire Hoard. Amazing. Sutton Hoo. Gob-smacking. And a few I never knew about, including a private bunch of treasures found down the road from me near Sandwich.\n\nAll fine and good. But it\'s not enough , is it? We had Nina shouting at us across a busy road in London with a wall behind her. Why? Because, er, the Romans built a wall too (I think). Hadrian\'s. Which was not the Kilburn High Road, or wherever this was filmed. But it was a wall, OK?\n\nThen we had Nina tottering into Garrards the jewellers and asking them how they\'d recreate some of the Saxon treasures she\'d found. They ummed and aahed and said: two months and two hundred grand. Cooeee, said Nina, or words to that effect.\n\nAnd, just to hammer home the point, not that I was ever sure what the point was, Garrards let her sit at a power grinding wheel and try to shape a piece of garnet. Not easy when you\'re giggling. After a good try <em>she found the garnet had hardly been reduced at all! </em>Boy it must have been tough for those Anglo-Saxons. As the Garrard chap helpfully pointed out <em>they didn\'t even have electricity.</em>\n\nI think I knew that, thank you.\n\nTalk about an opportunity wasted. Why does the Beeb need to talk down to its audience the moment a subject turns a touch serious? Why would some daft director foist this mad and superficial style on a knowledgeable expert? What possible reason, for that matter, does the academic have for going along with this trite nonsense? Are they desperate to be on X-Factor too?\n\nDoes the Beeb really think we\'re all that stupid?\n\nNo. The programme before on BBC 4 was Clare Balding\'s wonderful <em><a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tjr3z\" target=\"_blank\">Britain by Bike</a>, </em>this time in the glorious Highlands. Balding is a marvellous presenter, and this a wonderful example of how to make thoughtful, enthusiastic television. She cycled around the places she wanted to talk about and interviewed intelligent articulate people talking about what they knew best. So we got some Highland history then Terry Nutkins talking about his time with Gavin Maxwell, the author of <em>Ring of Bright Water</em>, and a few very sad and touching comments about how fame made Maxwell fall apart in the end.\n\nNo stiletto heels. No visits to London jewellers. No ridiculous clothes or gurning expressions for the camera. Just good television.\n\nBalding, of course, was <a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/clare-balding-homophobia-aa-gill-and-me-2040474.html\" target=\"_blank\">pilloried by that prat AA Gill</a> for her sexuality the other week, not that it\'s got anything to do with her substantial journalistic skills at all. Fat reward for making thoughtful television, eh? To be labelled a \'dyke on a bike\' by some smug hack who makes a rich living out of little more than hurling abuse at others.\n\nPerhaps that\'s what you get for trying. The English never did like swots. But I bet the Anglo-Saxons loved them. Otherwise who would have made all that beautiful jewellery.\n\nPS - unfortunately I\'ve had to put comments into moderation before they appear because this post has so incensed someone he is now posting one abusive one every thirty seconds. Since he won\'t provide a real email address I can only say here now what I tried to say in an email: no problem with carrying comments with disagree with the above. But pure personal abuse, particularly from someone who wishes to hide who they are, is not acceptable.\n\nSo feel free to comment but it won\'t appear until moderation thanks to James Fortford, Fortsford, Ortsford or whatever fictitious name he\'s using this time.','History as showbiz - the Saxons deserve better than this','','publish','open','open','','history-as-showbiz-the-saxons-deserve-better-than-this','','','2011-01-27 22:47:08','2011-01-27 22:47:08','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5654',0,'post','',14),(5684,1,'2010-08-25 13:57:00','2010-08-25 12:57:00','I suppose it was inevitable but this morning I switched on comment moderation. From now on you can comment freely here but it won’t appear until someone gets round to approving it.\n\nWhat’s the comment policy? A liberal one. I am more than happy – indeed encourage – opinions other than my own. But I feel they should be politely put and avoid abuse, and I also think they should come from someone who’s willing to put a real email address in the contact form . Pseudonyms are fine I guess (though I don’t like them frankly and don’t really understand why they’re necessary for most people).\n\n<!--more-->\n\nI should explain, though, why this change has come about. Earlier today I <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2010/08/25/history-as-showbiz-the-saxons-deserve-better-than-this/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a piece about last night’s BBC programme</a> on the Anglo-Saxons. It was just my opinion. I felt the programme epitomised an unfortunate trend in television history documentaries, one that puts entertainment over substance and resulted in the knowledgeable and likeable presenter wearing odd clothes, being placed in bizarre situations, and getting asked to do ‘amusing’ things that detracted from the subject matter. The culprit was the medium and director more than the presenter, but she, unfortunately, is the face the public sees.\n\nThat’s my view. I’m entitled to it as you are entitled yours.\n\nThe post got a few hits and went on Twitter. Mid-morning it had a couple of comments here that took much the same view, and many more on Twitter of the same persuasion. In fact I’ve yet to see anyone come out <em>in name</em> and say they loved the programme. Except for one comment which came in from one ‘James Fortford’ who wrote…\n<blockquote>As an introduction to Anglo-Saxon art, I found Dr Ramirez’s insight and enthusiasm for the subject quite inspiring… the documentary was beautifully shot, and well paced. Also it was a joy to see a passionate young presenter given the chance to make a programme on a topic she clearly loves.\n\nOh, and I must say that I found Dr Ramirez\'s documentary infinitely more interesting than any of your second-rate Dan Brown rip-off novels.</blockquote>\nThe Dan Brown thing is frankly a bit odd. I got that a few years back when <em>The Sacred Cut</em> came out. But the truth is that the first three Costa books, including that one, were written <em>before</em> <em>The Da Vinci Code, </em>a book I’ve never read (or anything else by DB except the first few pages of the last one). From what I know of Dan Brown I don\'t think you can compare much of my output to his. So let\'s be frank. This was just an attempt at a cheap insult. Was he really comparing a history documentary with a piece of fiction? No.\n\nI  duly emailed the chap to say, in effect: feel free to disagree with me as much as you like. I’m happy to carry it. But let’s be grown up here. The abuse doesn’t really do your case any good – unless it was your intention in the first place for some reason and then the answer\'s no -- I won\'t carry it.\n\nI put the comment in moderation and waited. The email bounced back. No such address. The comment came in again, with a different email address. I tried that in case the first one had been a mistake. It wasn’t. James Fortford (or Fortsford in some) doesn’t exist.\n\nThe comments then came thick and fast, a dozen or so in thirty minutes.\n<blockquote>Oh, you censored my comment? So it\'s acceptable for you to put a piece of criticism out there for all to read, but as soon as someone criticises your work or disagrees with you, you censor them?\n\nUnbelievable.</blockquote>\nWell no, actually. I just wanted you to make the same points but politely. And this wasn\'t about my work. It was about a TV programme. Oh, and insults aren\'t criticism either.\n\nHe  started pasting the same comments over and over again using different fake email addresses and said…\n<blockquote>I can do this all day. Dan Brown Rip-off merchant.</blockquote>\nThen there was this succinct piece of anonymous rhetoric…\n<blockquote>Twat.</blockquote>\nAfter which I put up the barriers and made it so that all comments now need to be approved before appearing, which is how they are now.\n\nThe internet’s odd really. It’s held up as some enabling vehicle for ‘freedom’ but in practice it’s often nothing more than a <em>carte blanche </em>for troublesome cowards who want to spit venom at people anonymously then run away and hide, giggling like guilty schoolchildren in the corner. It’s a shame really. It means those supportive comments for the programme never appeared, just because the commenter couldn’t be bothered to phrase them in a half-polite fashion.\n\nI must say though: none of this is new. A few years ago I was running the Wordpress site for the glorious <a href=\"http://www.save-wye.org\" target=\"_blank\">save-wye</a> campaign. This was 2006 when most people didn’t know what a blog was. We started by letting anyone comment in any way they wanted, without moderation so their remarks appeared immediately. That lasted a couple of weeks until we realised the average citizen has absolutely no idea about the laws of libel, especially when they could hide behind a nickname as 90 per cent chose to do.\n\nA few months later I banned anonymous commenting altogether. If people had something worthwhile to say, they could damn well put their real name to it. You can go through save-wye now and see the effect this had. The tone and quality of commenting improved enormously. People had to think about their opinions, and they knew that they would be seen to be <em>their</em> opinions, not those of some cowardly anonymous poster. Comments became more constructive, more thoughtful.\n\nIt was no longer a rabble of anonymous faces. It was a forum in which identifiable individuals could agree and disagree in public and learn how others felt. Get the point? <em>That</em> is what free speech is about. And in order to get it we had to circumscribe what commenters could do and how, otherwise it would simply degenerate into anarchy once more.\n\nI guess that was easier with save-wye, which was a small community website where most of us knew everyone else. It’s harder here but the general rule is the same. Feel free to disagree as much as you wish. But if you don’t say your bit politely, it probably won’t appear.\n\n<strong>Update</strong>\n\nThe chap concerned has now emailed me. He hadn\'t checked the one good email address he\'d used so didn\'t know I\'d tried to contact him about his comment. He apologised for getting the wrong end of the stick which I\'m happy to accept. Seems the Dan Brown remark was more to do with the book covers -- nothing to do with me, and now changed -- not the books, the last of which, he said, he\'d liked.\n\nSo it ended quite amicably I\'m happy to say.','Moderated comments and &#039;free speech&#039;','','publish','open','open','','moderated-comments-and-yes-this-is-free-speech','','','2011-01-27 22:47:08','2011-01-27 22:47:08','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/moderated-comments-and-yes-this-is-free-speech/',0,'post','',0),(5697,1,'2010-08-25 14:43:48','2010-08-25 13:43:48','I\'m pleased to tell you there\'s going to be an extra appearance at this year\'s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Canterbury Festival\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_Festival\">Canterbury Festival</a>. In conjunction with New Writing South, East Kent Live Lit and Waterstones, I\'ll be one of a lovely panel discussing the publishing industry during the Canterbury Festival.\n\nThe event is at <a href=\"http://www.waterstonescanterbury.co.uk/pages/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\">Waterstones</a>, 20-21 St. Margarets Street, Canterbury, 6.30pm to 7.45 pm on Friday October 22. I\'ll be on a panel with my own agent, Carole Blake, Martin Latham of Waterstones, and publishing professional Clare Christian, with Chris Taylor, the director of New Writing South in the chair. Tickets £8. Details from <a href=\"http://www.newwritingsouth.com/development/meettheindustry2.php\" target=\"_blank\">New Writing South</a> and <a href=\"http://www.livelit.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Live Lit Network</a>.\n\nI will, in Carole\'s honour, attempt to wear smart shoes. Nothing else is guaranteed. I think you\'ll find the splendid Sarah Waters follows us on the stage so you may wish to make a night of it -- I know we will.','An extra gig for the Canterbury Festival...','','publish','open','open','','an-extra-gig-for-the-canterbury-festival','','','2011-01-27 22:47:08','2011-01-27 22:47:08','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5697',0,'post','',0),(5704,1,'2010-08-26 11:49:54','2010-08-26 10:49:54','','Dell Streak','','inherit','open','open','','dell-streak','','','2010-08-26 11:49:54','2010-08-26 10:49:54','',5703,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dell-streak.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5706,1,'2010-08-26 11:54:32','2010-08-26 10:54:32','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Aldiko','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-23','','','2010-08-26 11:54:32','2010-08-26 10:54:32','',5703,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/aldiko.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5707,1,'2010-08-26 11:56:31','2010-08-26 10:56:31','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-24','','','2010-08-26 11:56:31','2010-08-26 10:56:31','',5703,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/word.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5708,1,'2010-08-26 11:59:26','2010-08-26 10:59:26','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Concise Oxford Italian Dictionary','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-25','','','2010-08-26 11:59:26','2010-08-26 10:59:26','',5703,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dict.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5703,1,'2010-08-26 12:30:00','2010-08-26 11:30:00','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/dell-streak.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5704\" title=\"Dell Streak\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/dell-streak.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>I hate to think of the money I’ve spent trying to find the right mobile gadget to let me deal with words on the move. Many, many years ago I owned a battery-driven, memory tape taking <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL\" target=\"_blank\">Sinclair QL</a> which wasn’t half bad for 1984 actually. I had a Newton, naturally, which was probably a step back. And a Windows CE mini laptop. And doubtless things I’ve forgotten.\n\nNone ever worked that well if I’m honest. And here we are in 2010, with the web everywhere, smart phones, dead cheap computers, tech coming out of our ears. And still no one’s perfected the trick of making a simple mobile device, smaller than a laptop, that will let you write, read and edit on the move.\n\nExcept this is the year of the tablet. The iPad might, I thought, be the answer, but it wasn’t though it seems that, thanks to the work of third party companies, not Apple, things are getting better. Don’t care. As long as you have to call up that dread monster iTunes just to transfer a file you can count me out.\n\nBut other solutions are promised, a flood of them. Here’s one of the first, the Dell Streak which, depending how you look at it, is either a small tablet or a big phone. This runs on Google’s Android platform, and so can usea stack of different downloadable apps, from games to satnav and all that social media stuff that mainly leaves me cold. What I want to know is simple: can it help me manage writing tasks on the move? Is this a good step closer to the working mobile gadget – not some toy – I’ve been craving as a writer and reader for years?\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<strong>The basics</strong>\n\nFor me the Dell is a large Android phone with a neat design and very slender body. It comes with a five-inch screen and an old version of Android, 1.6, which is supposed be updated soon and should be; users will get a lot more out of it when it’s brought up to the current 2.2. It’s a phone with a fast processor inside, 2gb of internal memory and another 16gb on a micro SD card. If you want to run video and massive libraries of music you probably need to upgrade that but it’s fine for me.\n\nDell have put their own face on Android and it’s pretty good. You can find your way around with a finger. The screen is clear and bright and can handle video, from Youtube and even Sky News though not BBC iPlayer (which should come with 2.2). I use Google for calendar and mail so all my messages, diary and contacts just sync automatically.\n\nIn the hand it feels like the biggest phone you’ve ever used or, if you turn it horizontally, a very small tablet. It’s clearly meant to spend most of the time horizontal so you can see lots of things. But turn it upright and the screen automatically goes to vertical and this is how I’ll be using it mostly when it comes to words. Battery life? Haven’t had much time to test in anger but I guess a day like most of these things.\n\nIt costs around £449 without a sim or from £25 a month for two years from O2 in the UK. If you want to buy one with a phone plan watch the details – that cheapest one includes no phone calls and actually, in spite of the size, the Streak makes a very good phone. For some people maybe the only one you’ll need (I barely use a phone for voice these days – it’s almost always data, so that could be me). I bought it sim-free direct from Dell and bunged in a T-Mobile PAYG sim which cost £10 to top up for calls and £20 for six months of data, which seems a bargain. The Dell spotted the sim instantly and set itself up without any input from me. It also hooks into wifi too, of course, so very quickly I was online.\n\nOne short comment about the cost: the Dell is grossly overpriced. I doubt it will be going out for anything like this come Christmas.\n\n<strong>How about reading?</strong>\n\nKindle 3 is on the way. I’ve one of those ordered too, for general family use and because, well, these things matter to people in this business. When that turns up I’ll put it side-by-side with the Streak and see how each shapes up. K3 uses some fancy e-ink technology to emulate paper and will, I\'m sure, be a lot more legible.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5706\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"205\" caption=\"Aldiko each shapes up. For pure reading I’d be surprised if the Kindle doesn’t win hands down. The screen’s a bit bigger and uses a completely different technology – e-ink.\"]<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aldiko.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-5706\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aldiko.jpg?w=205\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nBut… the Streak is really rather good too, though you won\'t be able to use it in full sun, as you can with e-ink. My everyday phone is another Android gadget, the HTC Desire. It runs pretty much the same stuff as the Dell but has a 3.7 inch screen. The difference that extra 1.3 inches makes is quite remarkable. I can’t read anything of length seriously on the HTC. On the Dell it’s no problem at all. Oh, and one nice surprise. All the apps I bought for my Desire download automatically to the Streak too – they’re tied to my Google account, not the machine. A neat touch.\n\nOne of my favourite Android ereading apps is <a href=\"http://www.aldiko.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Aldiko</a>. This is very much like the book apps on an iPad from what I can see, though Aldiko longs predates Apple’s efforts. It’s free in its most basic form and lets you browse out of print classics and self-published  books. Anything you can download as an epub file Aldiko can handle. You swipe to go from page to page. There are bookmarks, viewing choices and an easy link into the Google dictionary (provided you’re online – which you don’t need to be to read the book).\n\nThe Desire\'s screen is too small for serious book-reading for me. On the Streak it looks like this which is much more like it (sorry but taking pictures of this screen is not easy). Now a bunch of seven-inch Android tablets are on the way – Samsung will supposedly have one out next month, and by Christmas there will be five and seven and ten inch Android tablets everywhere. But actually it’s really quite usable on the five-inch.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5708\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"236\" caption=\"Concise Oxford Italian Dictionary\"]<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/dict.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-5708\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/dict.jpg?w=236\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nPlus you can have Kindle too. There’s a Kindle Android app that lets you browse the Amazon store (US and now UK). Anything you buy stays with Amazon so you can download it onto any Kindle-connected machine with your account, be it Android, desktop PC or Kindle hardware. I bought Arthur Machen’s translation of Casanova’s memoirs for $3 or so (it is available as epub for free which would work with Aldiko but not Kindle). Worked fine. In use Kindle is very much like Aldiko to be honest – bookmarks, but no dictionary. Will be interested to see how this compares with the Kindle 3.\n\nThere’s one other reading app I find invaluable when I’m in Italy and that’s the <a href=\"http://www.androidgear.com/en/eur/Concise-Oxford-Paravia-Italian-Dictionary-Android/product_4888981_details.html\" target=\"_blank\">Concise Oxford Italian dictionary</a>. It’s twenty euros but well worth it if you need a portable Italian dictionary. Not just words either but some genera language guidance too. Great on the Desire, even better on the Streak – fast and easy.\n\nNow to the important part…\n\n<strong>Writing and editing</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/word.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5707\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/word.jpg?w=201\" alt=\"Word\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" /></a>I need to be able to see work – a Word doc in other words - edit it, and <em>view and make comments. </em>I don’t expect a pocket device to be something I will write thousands of words on. But I do want to write some, and comments are essential (the absence of them in iPad Pages was what made me realise that was principally a device for consuming things, not creating or editing them).\n\nThere are a couple of ways to view Word docs on Android devices. Many, including the Streak, come with something called QuickOffice for free. But it’s pretty basic. Even on my Desire I’d worked out it was worth paying $14.99 for the upgrade to the full version of <a href=\"http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/android/\" target=\"_blank\">Documents to Go</a>. This is a kind of mini version of Microsoft Office, seen right. I don’t use anything but the Word editor and pdf reader, and both work fine.\n\nIf I pull in a Word doc I can read it, see comments, add comments (and supposedly track changes too, not that I’ve tried or probably need that right now). I\'ve zoomed for the picture (easily done on the Streak) so that you can see it better. In real life I\'d run a smaller font than that and tighter line spacing to get more text on the screen.  My actual editing screen would look closer to the text in Aldiko or the dictionary above I suspect. Would just take a little tweaking.\n\nThe only slight glitch on the Streak is the delay in moving from landscape to portrait. But honestly… I can live with that. Typing is fine and a lot easier on a smaller phone – Dell have put on an extended keyboard, with number pad. Or you can use one of the alternative keyboards like Swiftkey. I imagine you could add a Bluetooth keyboard too though why is beyond me.\n\n<strong>Note-taking and research</strong>\n\nA doddle. There’s a 5 megapixel camera on the back so you can drop stuff straight to Evernote if you want, or simply email yourself notes and photos or audio clips too. There are apps for things like <a href=\"http://www.rememberthemilk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Remember the Milk</a> and other information services too, along with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr.... pretty much anything you could imagine.\n\n<strong>Is it worth it?</strong>\n\nThat absolutely depends how much need you have for something like this. You can buy stuff from Dell and return it for up to a week. So I wasn’t sure whether I’d hang onto it frankly.\n\nRight now I\'m minded to hang on to the Streak. It’s an odd in-between device. It won’t fit in a jeans pocket, though it will in a shirt one or bag easily. It sits somewhere between the portability of a phone and an iPad or a netbook. But I can take serious amounts of work – full length books in progress – with me, edit and comment on them, make notes, take photos, get email, browse the web, and use some very nifty satnav features in the car too. It doesn’t need any extra connection widgets or software. Plug it in through any USB port and it recharges and looks like any memory stick for swapping round files.\n\nKindle 3 is an ereader. The iPad is much larger and mainly about consuming things, not editing or creating them. This is a small computer with a number of different and versatile talents.\n\nThe big question is... will a seven-inch Android tablet be better? I honestly don\'t know. In terms of text on screen for writing the Streak suits me. In standard font in Kindle or Aldiko or Word it fits around the same number of lines on the page and in line length that you get in mass market paperback book. I wouldn\'t want to see more, horizontally or vertically. That would be too long or too wide.\n\nAlso I suspect those extra two inches will make the thing a sight less portable. This could double as a phone... just. Anything larger wouldn\'t -- and I\'ve already decided that the iPad is way too big for my uses (and I\'m probably not alone since Apple are supposedly planning a seven-inch version).\n\nAnyway -- that\'s where we are today. Tomorrow the Kindle should turn up and I may change my mind completely of course.','A little editing time with the Dell Streak','','publish','open','open','','a-little-editing-time-with-the-dell-streak','','','2011-01-27 22:47:08','2011-01-27 22:47:08','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/a-little-editing-time-with-the-dell-streak/',0,'post','',0),(5720,1,'2010-08-28 11:32:12','2010-08-28 10:32:12','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-26','','','2010-08-28 11:32:12','2010-08-28 10:32:12','',5719,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rimg0017.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5726,1,'2010-08-28 11:51:37','2010-08-28 10:51:37','','kindle','Kindle management through Amazon account','inherit','open','open','','kindle','','','2010-08-28 11:51:37','2010-08-28 10:51:37','',5719,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kindle.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5719,1,'2010-08-28 12:04:52','2010-08-28 11:04:52','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rimg0017.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5720\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/rimg0017.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>My new Kindle 3 arrived this morning. Why did I order one? Few reasons really, and those uppermost are probably not the ones in the mind of most Kindle buyers. I write books for a living so I need to know what\'s going on in the marketplace.\n\nAlso I have an unfulfilled desire for something that will let me research and revise my work more efficiently than ink and paper. Not that they have no place, in revision or the final product.\n\nThe key attraction of Kindle for lots of people -- as a way of moving from printed books to digital ones -- isn\'t mine right now. I want to use this primarily as a writing and research tool and will write about how it does that a little later.\n\nBut first let me try and explain what I understand Kindle to be, because it\'s not what I thought. A lot of people are somewhat baffled by the concept, not least because it <em>isn\'t</em> that familiar piece of hardware, or at least not entirely. There\'s lots to say here and I won\'t manage it in one go. Also I\'m new to this thing and will doubtless get some stuff wrong -- if so please correct me in the comments.<!--more-->\n\nKindle is a way of distributing digital media invented by Amazon, owned by Amazon, controlled by them. So you can\'t shop around other bookstores for products, at least not easily, though there are tons of free books you can get for it, through Amazon and elsewhere. The implications of that are huge but for discussion on another day.\n\nIn the beginning the only way you could get Kindle was by buying one of those physical Kindle readers. Now it\'s open to a much wider audience. There are Kindle reader apps for Windows, Macs, iPhones, iPads and Android phones. These read books bought through Amazon\'s Kindle store. Plenty of free ones and you get sample chapters of commercial books. If you want to explore what Kindle is about I\'d just download one of those free apps and play about for a little while to get the idea.\n\nThe point about Kindle is it\'s what geeks call a \'cloud\' service. With most of our digital toys we worry about storage. How many photographs can I get on that camera memory card? How many tunes on my iPod?\n\nKindle doesn\'t work that way. When you buy something through it on Amazon -- or even acquire a free book -- Amazon knows that and keeps a copy on its own network. Imagine you have Kindle on your work PC, a Mac laptop, an Android phone, and you own a Kindle reader too. You can read it on each and happily delete all of them and it won\'t matter. When you want to read it again -- even years down the line presumably -- you just retrieve it from your Amazon archive. And you can manage all this online through a simple interface, below.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5726\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"490\" caption=\"Kindle management through Amazon account\"]<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5726 \" title=\"kindle\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"193\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nSee what Amazon\'s hoping to be? Your new replacement library. What matters are the books. How you choose to read them is up to you. This is a very new concept, quite unlike that of any ereader that\'s come before. Took me a while to understand frankly. That said, this thing is beautifully designed through, from the hardware to the system of delivering books. My K3 arrived this morning ready set up for my Amazon account. I didn\'t have to enter a username or a password. As soon as I turned it on it knew who I was and downloaded the books I already had from my Kindle app purchases.\n\nThe other big difference is the buying experience. Because there\'s only one store, Amazon can make that as simple (and as powerful for their own purposes) as possible. Buying for a Kindle app is a doddle. Buying on the reader is even easier. The K3 has wifi and, if you pay the extra, international free 3G coverage too. You can sit down anywhere you\'re connected, browse the web store, download book samples to see if you like the look of a title, then purchase it on the spot and have the thing delivered in short order.\n\nIt\'s mind-boggling frankly and I\'m only scratching the surface here. This is not like using a personal computer at all. It\'s simple, logical and probably about as easy to understand as it could be. Think of the nightmare of some ereader purchases -- downloading DRM software, buying through PCs then copying files over through a USB cable. It\'s a world away from all that nonsense.\n\nBut back to my principal purpose next. Research and revision. How well does it handle these? And is there a difference between what\'s available to owners who have just the apps -- not the ereader -- when it comes to the clever stuff? The answer to the second is, surprise, surprise, yes. And it\'s a big one.\n\nIf you own the ereader Amazon give you a special Kindle email address. Send a Word file -- say a book manuscript -- to this and it will convert the thing into Kindle format and send it back to you to read on your Kindle reader or app. If your agent or editor owns a Kindle (and not just the app) you can deliver your books in the same way.\n\nBig thing number two. You can search books easily and quickly. You can make notes and highlights. <em>And all those notes and highlights will get synced from device to device. </em>Can you see the possibilities both for research and revision?\n\nI can. And there has to be a gotcha somewhere. Let me play with it in real life and try to find them.  I will report back when I have something to say.\n\nOh, and as for the Android-based giant phone Dell Streak I wrote about earlier. Great piece of kit and very versatile.\n\nBut next to the Kindle for book revision... big time loser I\'m afraid. Plus it costs over £400 against the Kindle\'s £109 for a wifi only device and £149 for free international 3G on top.\n\nThe Dell is going back.\n\nThe Kindle is a keeper. As we used to say on ancient newspapers... more follows later...','Kindle for beginners (like me)','','publish','open','open','','kindle-for-beginners-like-me','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5719',0,'post','',0),(5739,1,'2010-08-28 14:49:51','2010-08-28 13:49:51','','kindle search desktop','','inherit','open','open','','kindle-search-desktop','','','2010-08-28 14:49:51','2010-08-28 13:49:51','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kindle-search-desktop.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5740,1,'2010-08-28 15:11:58','2010-08-28 14:11:58','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-27','','','2010-08-28 15:11:58','2010-08-28 14:11:58','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kindle-search.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5741,1,'2010-08-28 15:13:00','2010-08-28 14:13:00','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-28','','','2010-08-28 15:13:00','2010-08-28 14:13:00','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/search-res.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5742,1,'2010-08-28 15:14:03','2010-08-28 14:14:03','','desktop note','','inherit','open','open','','desktop-note','','','2010-08-28 15:14:03','2010-08-28 14:14:03','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/desktop-note.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5743,1,'2010-08-28 15:16:57','2010-08-28 14:16:57','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-29','','','2010-08-28 15:16:57','2010-08-28 14:16:57','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/view-notes.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5744,1,'2010-08-28 15:18:45','2010-08-28 14:18:45','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-30','','','2010-08-28 15:18:45','2010-08-28 14:18:45','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/phone-menu.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5745,1,'2010-08-28 15:19:41','2010-08-28 14:19:41','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-31','','','2010-08-28 15:19:41','2010-08-28 14:19:41','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/phone-note.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5746,1,'2010-08-28 15:20:29','2010-08-28 14:20:29','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-32','','','2010-08-28 15:20:29','2010-08-28 14:20:29','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/phone-screen.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5758,1,'2010-08-28 15:32:21','2010-08-28 14:32:21','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-33','','','2010-08-28 15:32:21','2010-08-28 14:32:21','',5738,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kin-note.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5738,1,'2010-08-28 15:34:20','2010-08-28 14:34:20','Research is important to me. A lot of that is going to be physical -- going places, taking photographs, reading paper books that simply aren\'t in the digital domain. But a lot of it can move over to a digital book if the right tools are there. And boy is the Kindle the right one for that in many ways.\n\nLet\'s take a look at managing some research on the same document -- the complete works of Shakespeare -- on three different machines using Kindle and Kindle apps.\n\n<!--more-->I bought this -- through Kindle, naturally -- for the princely sum of 74 pence. It\'s the \'<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Shakespeare-Macbeth-narrative-Lucrece/dp/B003TXT5ZQ\" target=\"_blank\">Coyote Canyon Press\'</a> edition, whatever that means, and looks like an open source Shakespeare very adequately packaged together with a foreword which -- cough, cough -- is revealed by the hyperlink at the end to be the entry on dear Will from Wikipedia!\n\nI\'m no Shakespeare expert but this source material looks good enough for this exercise. How many words are we looking at here? I haven\'t a clue -- Kindle doesn\'t tell you. There all 37 plays, 154 sonnets and some stuff I\'ve never heard of besides, all divided sensibly into different works and sub-sections as a single document  with a staggering 51,46 \'locations\' -- the term Kindle uses for a chapter or section break I suspect.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle-search-desktop.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5739\" title=\"kindle search desktop\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle-search-desktop.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" /></a>And, on the Kindle reader and through the desktop app, it\'s searchable. Let\'s look for the word \'manifest\'.\n\nHow quick was that? Pretty much instantaneous really. I can go straight to the annotated entries in situ in a flash. The search panel stays at the side of the screen as long as I need it.\n\nThink about it for a second. Yes, you could navigate the thing this easily as a pdf file if you downloaded one from Project Gutenberg or somewhere. But you\'d need to spend money on a pdf editor to let you add notes and comments and stuff. And pdfs get big and messy -- the right format for a desktop isn\'t always the right one for a smaller screen.\n\nThe Kindle can handle pdfs I gather. But I\'d rather stay away from them unless I find a good reason. If I want to go through a long digital document and find native format this suits me very well and runs very swiftly indeed.\n\nAh, yes. You\'re thinking. But this is Kindle on a PC. It <em>should</em> be fast. What\'s it like on the Kindle hardware? This... Hit menu, and choose Search this Book.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle-search.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5740\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle-search.jpg?w=279\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nType in a search term and in under two seconds you get the results for everything Shakespeare wrote.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/search-res.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5741\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/search-res.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" /></a>\n\nThat\'s a touch slower than my large desktop PC, but not much. For a tiny little thing like this I\'m impressed. So what about notes? You can type those in very easily on the desktop and add a highlight too. You can do the same thing very easily on the Kindle reader though it\'s a thumb keyboard so don\'t expect to use it for editing or long chunks of writing -- not that I need it for this.\n\nHere\'s a note added on the desktop, with some highlighting too.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/desktop-note.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5742\" title=\"desktop note\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/desktop-note.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"144\" /></a>\n\nAs I said in my original article, it\'s important to remember that what we\'re dealing with here isn\'t some local note. It\'s part of a synced document. So let me close down PC Kindle and open up my reader and say \'Show me my notes for this document\'.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/view-notes.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5743\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/view-notes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" /></a>\n\nI get a list of document notes and choose the one I want. Here it is, highlighted and with a little marker to show me there\'s a note there.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kin-note.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5758\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kin-note.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"230\" /></a>\n\nI only just typed it on my desktop but here it is now on the Kindle, ready for the road if I was setting off for London or somewhere. And, of course, I could delete notes, add to them, create new ones and everything would sync back to my desktop when I opened that up.\n\nNot just the desktop either. Here\'s my Android phone with the free Kindle app on. I can\'t search or create notes on it, but I can see annotations.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/phone-menu.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5744\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/phone-menu.jpg?w=187\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nHere I see a list of all the ones I\'ve made.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/phone-note.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5745\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/phone-note.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" /></a>\n\nAnd here I see the actual entry, with the highlight.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/phone-screen.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5746\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/phone-screen.jpg?w=210\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nThe note is that little blue mark by the way. If I tap on it I get the actual note itself.\n\nThat document synced between those three machine so quickly I barely noticed the transfer time. How would I use this? Mainly for making use of time that would otherwise be wasted. Reading on a train or at an airport and making usable notes. Keeping all my annotations in sync without even having to think about. Staying on top of the occasionally very complex tasks of managing book research.\n\nWould be nice to have some input on the Android app (I\'ve no idea if the iPad or iPhone has the same restriction). But any way you look at it, this seems to be pretty amazing.','Kindle for author research','','publish','open','open','','kindle-for-author-research','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5738',0,'post','',0),(5765,1,'2010-08-30 15:27:07','2010-08-30 14:27:07','','print','','inherit','open','open','','print','','','2010-08-30 15:27:07','2010-08-30 14:27:07','',5762,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/print.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5766,1,'2010-08-30 16:18:19','2010-08-30 15:18:19','','kindle docs','','inherit','open','open','','kindle-docs','','','2010-08-30 16:18:19','2010-08-30 15:18:19','',5762,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kindle-docs.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5767,1,'2010-08-30 16:19:27','2010-08-30 15:19:27','','kin notes','','inherit','open','open','','kin-notes','','','2010-08-30 16:19:27','2010-08-30 15:19:27','',5762,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kin-notes.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5762,1,'2010-08-30 16:39:34','2010-08-30 15:39:34','There\'s an old cliche in this business: there are no great writers, only great rewriters. Something to be said for it too. I\'m sure there are people who finish their first draft, take a look at it, think \'perfect\' and then send it off to an agent or publisher. But not many.\n\nFor me revision represents the final five per cent of a book that can make the difference between success and failure. But the process itself is not straightforward and can go awry, just as writing the original may fall apart so easily.\n\nThere are two approaches to revising your work, both essential, both complementary. The first is the obvious one: revision from the author\'s point of view. This entails going through your manuscript word by word, line by line, looking at it from a micro and macro point of view, close up on the page and at a distance from an overall point of view.\n\nThe second is the trickier one: trying to see your novel as a remote, dispassionate reader, page by page, not thinking for a moment about changing every literal you come across, simply making a note it\'s there and needs addressing later. This is where the Kindle (and yes, let me say it before the fanbois squawk, I\'m sure the iPad too) has a role. <!--more-->\n\nThe simplest way to get a reader\'s view is to print out your manuscript two pages to an A4 page so that it looks like a proper paperback book, as in the example below. You may think... what? These are the same words? Why on earth would I treat them differently just because the print\'s smaller, the line spacing is less and there are two pages to a page?\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/print.jpg\"><img title=\"print\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/print.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"320\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/print.jpg\"></a>Try it and see. I don\'t know why but those same words become different when they look like a book. All experienced authors know that they see things when their manuscript comes back as a typeset galley. We\'re immediately banging our heads and asking ourselves, \'How did I miss that?\' I can\'t imagine submitting  a book without printing it out to paper at some stage, even with a Kindle or iPad in the process. The shift from screen to paper changes something, and if you don\'t accomplish it you\'re missing a trick.\n\nBut all those pages can get tedious after a while, and it\'s easy to get confused between versions. How about an electronic in between that sits in front of that final paper revise? The Kindle does this beautifully (and I\'m talking about the reader here, not the free apps from PCs, Mac, Ipads and phones). If you use the latter <em>and</em> own a Kindle reader you can do this. If you haven\'t bought the reader you can\'t. Here\'s how it works.\n\nWhen you buy your Kindle Amazon give you a Kindle email address. It\'s not for email so don\'t worry about spam. You use it to send documents to your reader. In my case that\'s usually going to be a Word doc. Curious, I emailed the entire 125K word .docx file of my 2012 book to my Amazon address. A couple of minutes later it was converted and downloaded to the Kindle (and available to the apps too). There are other ways to get things into Kindle by the way, even if you don\'t own a reader. But I do and I\'m lazy. This is it.\n\nWhat form is my Word file in now? <em>It\'s a Kindle book</em>. Given the nightmares I\'ve had with formatting for electronic media in the past I am truly astonished to be able to say this. Amazon\'s system just took that Word file, recognised the chapter headings, and laid everything out perfectly. Even to the extent of setting the first line of each first chapter full out, without an indent <em>which wasn\'t the way it was in the manuscript </em>(I\'m lazy like that). Even to the extent of reading footnotes and handling them properly.\n\nAmazing.\n\nOnce it\'s on the Kindle it\'s just another title. You can highlight and make notes, as I detailed here the other day. And those annotations get shared between your different Kindle apps.\n\nWhat does this cost? If you have a wifi only Kindle nothing -- the conversion just happens and comes down the line when you next connect. If you have a 3G and wifi model it\'s free over wifi too. But if you receive the file by 3G there\'s a \'small charge\', namely £0.20 per MB. There\'s a really simple way to avoid this altogether. If your Kindle email address is freddo.bloggs@kindle.com just email your personal document to freddo.bloggs@free.kindle.com. That way it will be held until your Kindle has a wifi connection and only come down the line then, for nothing.\n\nThat kind of thoughtful aside is typical of this system I have to say.\n\nAnother neat trick is that you can allow other people to send documents to your Kindle account. Say you\'re an agent or publisher, you could put your authors\' names into the allowed addresses section of your Kindle account. If they email a Word doc to your Kindle email address that manuscript will turn up on your Kindle, ready formatted for reading.\n\nHere\'s an important point. That word \'reading\'. This is not an editing system. Kindle is the equivalent of that printout view -- you can scribble in comments in the margin but you can\'t change the actual text.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle-docs.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5766\" title=\"kindle docs\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kindle-docs.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" /></a>Is there a way an agent could send back an annotated Kindle file to a writer? Not that I can see (though I hope I\'m wrong). Amazon seems to turn your personal document into a copy protected book file. So this isn\'t an easy way for agents, authors and publishers to share revision comments as far as I can see, which is a shame. All you have is the simple facility here -- a clippings file in the documents folder of the reader when you plug it into a computer.\n\nEverything you add to all documents on your reader will be stored here in a single file with information about the date of writing, the book and the location.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kin-notes.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5767\" title=\"kin notes\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/kin-notes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"198\" /></a>\n\nTrack changes and commenting it isn\'t.\n\nThis does represent a wonderful delivery medium for passing on a manuscript for reading. But the hard work of collaboration will still have to be done on a computer, through something like Word. And no, you can\'t export that imported personal document on the Kindle back to Word. If you could do that the copy protection would be broken, wouldn\'t it?\n\nI can\'t get too worked up about these failings. I like the division between the author view and the reader one. The more perspective I can get on my work the better. I now have a way to do a \'reader revision\' without paper. With the Kindle document conversion process it\'s easy and free. And maybe there are ways around some of these limitations -- I\'m new to this thing so I wouldn\'t know.\n\nI remain impressed though. Reading my 2012 book on Kindle gives me an insight into how it will one day appear, and I\'m already thinking of changes and improvements I can make. 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What a beautiful part of the country. Can\'t wait to go back.\n\nThe camera was busy too. Will post more photos here shortly but here\'s a wonderful location many visitors to Moray miss. It\'s just a mile from the busy Culloden battlefield, a bleak moor on the outskirts of Inverness. The Cairns of Clava are a kind of miniature prehistoric Stonehenge set down a narrow road in a wood. You can read about them through the photos -- I now always snap information boards too. Beats taking notes. 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It’s called <a href=\"http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=4665\" target=\"_blank\">the Well of the Seven Heads</a>. And yes, if you look at the photo here you can see seven heads stuck on top of the monument to the event which is by the side of the road, in front of a very friendly local store, overlooking the loch.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/r0010386.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5803\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/r0010386.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>The story goes back to 1663 when two sons of the Chief of MacDonnel, the local warlord with a castle at Invergarry, were murdered during a quarrel with an uncle and six sons. Family arguments could turn nasty in those days it seems.\n\nThe clan chief passed summary judgement and sent thirty of his men to the uncle’s home to kill all seven involved. They were duly beheaded then, before being presented to the chief at the castle down the road, washed in the spring by the loch. Bad form to take home severed heads dirty I imagine.\n\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5804\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/r0010382.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe obelisk tells the story in several languages. And as the nice lady in the shop told me, you can walk down some steps to see the well where the heads were supposedly washed below. Three and a half centuries on I didn’t see anyone refilling their water bottles here.\n\nFurther on to the west you get to the scene of yet another infamous Highland atrocity, the dreadful <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Massacre of Glencoe\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe\">Glencoe massacre</a>, orchestrated in part from England but mainly by a dubious Scottish aristocrat John Dalrymple as a way of getting revenge against the Highlanders he hated. Dalrymple walked away scot-free, if you’ll pardon the expression. Thirty eight MacDonalds were murdered by the soldiers who had been living as their guests under the guise of Highland hospitality.\n\nIt’s strange to think of such brutality in gorgeous surroundings such as this. Here\'s the view of Loch Oich from the well, the last the errant MacDonnels saw of their beloved Highlands.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/r0010387.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5807\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/r0010387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" /></a>\n\nYou can \'visit\' in Google Maps, below.\n\n[googlemaps http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=embed&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=invergarry&amp;amp;sll=57.056556,-5.129242&amp;amp;sspn=0.044015,0.069952&amp;amp;gl=uk&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Invergarry,+Highland,+United+Kingdom&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=57.052107,-4.796587&amp;amp;panoid=nbeVRqY0G5wDhX8EfYTo2g&amp;amp;cbp=12,157.67,,0,15.16&amp;amp;ll=57.068923,-4.800793&amp;amp;spn=0.043834,0.069952&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;output=svembed&amp;w=425&amp;h=350]','The scary Well of the Seven Heads','','publish','open','open','','the-scary-well-of-the-seven-heads','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/the-scary-well-of-the-seven-heads/',0,'post','',0),(5817,1,'2010-09-06 09:00:00','2010-09-06 08:00:00','Ten years ago, when I was still a journalist with the <em>Sunday Times, </em>I wrote a lengthy and protracted rant against Britain’s monopoly telecoms company, BT. Now there’s a paywall at the paper so you can’t see the article unless you’re a subscriber. But those nice chaps at <em>The Register</em> liked it so much they sent me a vulture tee shirt. You can read their comments <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/09/25/sunday_times_savages_bt/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> and a bit of BT’s response <a href=\"http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/09/bt_and_oftel_fight_back/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nActually this was not their full response. So incensed were the company they demanded I attend a dressing down from the BT chairman who would ‘put me right on a few things’ in his office a day or two after it appeared and expect a retraction the following week. I told the PR hack who made this demand that he was through to the wrong department and I’d transfer him to the right one. Unfortunately we were very busy at the time, his call was in a queue and he didn’t seem much minded to wait for someone in Mumbai to answer.\n\nI think what got to them were comments like this…\n<blockquote>The progress of BT from fat, lazy public monopoly to fat, lazier private one was the last great tragedy of 20th-century British commerce.</blockquote>\nAnd…\n<blockquote>BT stands between Britain and the wired world, a pre-information-age dinosaur struggling to lip-read a script it can never understand.</blockquote>\nOh and the fact I suggested BT could stand for \'Big Thief\'.\n\n<!--more-->The article wasn’t <em>just</em> a series of insults aimed at this much-hated company though. It had a serious point. When state monopolies are privatised they are generally divided into at least two entities: the part that deals with the delivery backbone, and then, through competition, the companies that sell to the consumer. So you can choose gas and electricity suppliers from a variety of companies, even though you only have one wire or pipe into your house.\n\nBT kept hold of both. Yes, there’s some competition for the pipe if you live in urban areas where there are alternative suppliers. But millions of us still rely on a BT line for our phone and broadband, and while there’s some competition behind that, the amount depending on where you live, BT at the time managed the lion’s share of the wiring and were not exactly pulling their corporate fingers out to get the internet to Britain.\n\nThe argument was simple: split the company in two, between the backbone and the consumer end, and allow true free competition to reign.\n\nBT is a very rich company with a lot of money to lobby politicians. The split never came. Yes, things are a bit more competitive today. But if you’re someone tied to a smaller phone exchange you probably ultimately depend on BT for your increasingly vital broadband connection. I fall into that latter category, and in truth my village exchange only got connected to broadband at all because my local county council was willing to bung BT a fat subsidy to put the equipment in so that the company can then earn a fat sum selling it to customers. Great, eh?\n\nSo, ten years on are we better off? Or is BT fatter, lazier and more greedy than ever? Guess what? The latter, and let me tell you the horror story of my own broadband connection by way of explanation.\n\nOur little exchange got broadband at the end of 2006, first at 2mb then at 8mb (which BT finally agreed to roll out to early customers after some complaints). I run on an annual contract. Every September I have to talk to this dreadful company and try to work out how much I’ll pay. It’s a little like doing business with some South American drug  cartel. That bewildering array of prices and options on the website is just a shop front for the innocent. Peer beneath the surface and you\'ll find there\'s a whole new world, a murky web of deals on offer only for the persistent able to track down the right voice among BT\'s teeming call centre corridors.\n\nThe opening shot on the phone was a £3 discount, £19.99 per month with line rental on top, just over £30 in all. OK, I said with a sigh. An email comes through saying the deal is done and it will cost me £16.99 a month. I spend half an hour on the phone getting bounced from continent to continent querying this (BT naturally does not respond accurately to queries sent by email). Finally someone comes on and says the £19.99 figure was correct and the £16.99 one ‘was just generated by the computer when the order was placed’.\n\nI could have argued that a computer figure surely ought to be the right one. But  I was now three or four hours into the whole thing and just wanted to get on with some real work. The BT call centre computers always say ‘We’re very busy right now’ when they put you on hold for ages. I wonder what BT thinks we’re up to with our time?\n\nTwo days later I get an email from Warren Buckley, Customer Services Director, to say thank you for renewing my contract. Two days after that the same Warren writes me a letter saying, ‘We’re sorry you have decided not to renew your BT offer.’\n\nQuite where that last one came from I’ve no idea. I try to find out. I spend another hour on the phone, to all the wrong departments, all over the place. No one seems to know. So out of interest I decide to phone up for the MAC code which will allow me to move to another phone supplier. Here’s where it gets really murky.\n\nIf you’re an existing customer with a genuine problem you are, to BT, mere pond life to be ignored. But the moment you say you want to stop giving them money you suddenly jump to the top of the queue. When I ring and ask for a MAC code I am sent straight away to a cheery Scottish woman who’s <em>so</em> sympathetic, can’t understand why my contract is about to expire either, though she confirms it is, and would really love to keep me as a BT customer. She spends a while tapping away on the computer and comes back with a suggestion of a slightly reduced bandwidth contract for just £10.99 a month! A special deal, for little old me.\n\nBells ring. I’ve been here before, two years ago, when exactly the same thing happened… and the price I was promised never ever materialised. In fact BT called me a liar when I said I\'d been offered it.\n\nBy the time this thought has gone through my head the Scottish lady is typing in the order confirmation.\n\n‘Wait,’ I say. ‘I never agreed to this. I’d like to see this price in writing, please. Can you just email me the new numbers?’\n\nLong sigh. No, she says. The only way I can see the cost of my new broadband is <em>by accepting the offer</em>. After which it will be up there for me to see.\n\n‘All these conversations are recorded anyway,’ she adds, ‘so you can always confirm what I’ve said.’\n\nAnother bell rings. Two years ago when they choked me like this I raised a formal complaint which forced a very grumpy BT ‘customer service’ man to take up the case. He told me that for some reason the tapes of that particular conversation ‘weren’t available’. So I’m not falling for that one again.\n\nAll I’d like, I say, is confirmation in writing of the price. It’s not a lot to ask. In most walks of life people are very willing to confirm a price in writing, particularly for an annual contract that\'s worth several hundred pounds.\n\nNo, she insists, so I say, ‘In that case I’ll have the MAC code please.’\n\nLong pause and then the frightful words, ‘I’ll put you through to the right department.’\n\nNote that. Even though I’d pushed the number for a MAC code BT didn’t put me through to someone who could supply it. Just someone determined to stop me leaving their appalling company.\n\nNor did she put me through to the right department. Ten minutes on hold and someone says, ‘Not me.’ Ten more minutes on hold and the next person says, ‘Not me either’ then goes through to the whole routine to persuade me to stay once more. After forty very determined minutes I finally get something that BT are obliged to provide by law.\n\nThis is just the tip of the iceberg. Over the last decade I must have spent days on the phone to these people, getting bounced from department to department, chasing missed service appointments, querying wholly inaccurate bills, asking them to fix lines that have been down for weeks, then trying, and usually failing, to get even some modest compensation for their failure to deliver something they’ve been paid for.\n\nThat, I think, is what irks me more than anything. Most of us get paid on results. Deliver something and the customer forks out. Fail to come up with the goods and we’re empty-handed. BT have wangled themselves into a position where they can dip into our pockets whether they’re doing the job or not. It’s a scandal that the political establishment have allowed the dinosaur of ten years ago to get even lazier, greedier and more stupid over the ensuing years.\n\nAnd who’s my new provider? I really don’t have much choice. This is a BT-only exchange, so all those great deals you see advertised by the likes of TalkTalk and Sky aren’t available (not that TalkTalk’s sales people seem to know whenever they make that regular cold call). So my options are limited and my new supplier of line rental and broadband will be Plusnet. Who are owned by… BT.\n\nSigh. At least it’s supposed to be an independent company, with just a single contact point, not the web of confusing department stretching from Scotland to India that BT hope to baffle you with. Frying pan into the fire? We’ll see. But honestly it surely can\'t be worse, and it\'s a real relief to know I will, in theory, never have to deal with BT again.\n\nAnd the price? It\'s about the same, more than that £10.99 special offer, if it was real, but I don\'t really care. This isn\'t about cost. It\'s about getting a reliable service from a company I can trust. BT didn\'t fit that description ten years ago. 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Not long after he climbed into the water with the dog, seemingly for a walk, and the two of them had a happy time splashing about.\n\nLovely spot -- if you\'re visiting nearby it\'s well worth the walk.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rimg0043.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5827 alignnone\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rimg0043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" /></a>','Favourite shot from Scotland','','publish','open','open','','favourite-shot-from-scotland','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5826',0,'post','',0),(5830,1,'2010-09-07 12:37:26','2010-09-07 11:37:26','... will be called <em>The Plague Doctor, </em>set entirely in Venice and be more than a little unusual. It\'s protagonist is Teresa Lupo, a regular from the Costa series, though this is very much a departure from that, one which sees her acting alone. Here\'s the press release....<!--more-->\n\nMacmillan and Blake Friedmann are delighted to announce they have agreed a new deal for David Hewson.\n\nTrisha Jackson of Macmillan bought the new novel from Carole Blake at Blake Friedmann.  THE PLAGUE DOCTOR is a novel of Venice, in which the city\'s dark side  - present and past - is shown in stark contrast to the intoxications of the Carnival.\n\nTHE BLUE DEMON, the latest in David Hewson\'s Rome-set Nic Costa series, was published by Pan in paperback last month, and the next title in the series, THE FALLEN ANGEL will be published in hardback in February next year. Macmillan have  produced superproofs which include a dvd with an author interview about the writing of the novel.   They are now embarking on a programme of reissues of the entire Hewson backlist.  His novels are published in 23 languages.\n\nOf the new deal, David Hewson said:  \'After a dozen titles over the last decade, I\'m proud to call Macmillan my UK home and its talented and enthusiastic staff my colleagues.\'\n\nTrisha Jackson said: \'We are absolutely delighted to have acquired THE PLAGUE DOCTOR. As is true of all David\'s thrillers, it is a completely absorbing and utterly compelling story. Immensely atmospheric, intricately plotted, and immaculately researched, it\'s a wonderful novel from a terrific author. We are incredibly proud and excited to continue as David\'s publisher. He deserves to be right at the top of the bestseller list, and we\'re determined to get him there.\'\n\nCarole Blake said: \'There\'s a great sense of satisfaction in signing another contract with a publisher as committed to an author as Macmillan is to David Hewson.  Their plans for both frontlist and backlist marketing are aimed at bringing him the bestseller status his writing surely deserves.\'\n\nDavid Hewson has been hailed by other writers:\n\'David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. No question. His tight narrative chords carry an air of…intimacy. His plots build layer by layer through carefully selected prose. He has rakish, roguish, and scandalous villains who do battle with a gutsy and vulnerable hero.  David is blessed with a superb imagination and if you have not, as yet, read one of his tales, start here. You will not be disappointed.\' -- Steve Berry\n\n\'Packs more twists and action into its brilliantly plotted pages than half a dozen other thrillers combined.\' -- Linwood Barclay\n\n\'David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers of our time and Nic Costa is a detective for the ages. From the first paragraph, CITY OF FEAR will seize you and not let go until the last page has been turned. If you haven\'t read a Hewson novel yet, what the cazzo are you waiting for?\' -- Douglas Preston, author of \'Monster of Florence\'','The book for 2012','','publish','open','open','','the-book-for-2012','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5830',0,'post','',0),(5833,1,'2010-09-08 16:21:17','2010-09-08 15:21:17','I\'ll be taking part in a series of literary talks at the Italian Institute in London next year, curated by Maxim Jakubowski. My gig is on February 21 which ties in neatly with the launch of the ninth Costa novel, <em>The Fallen Angel. </em>The brave Barry Forshaw will be taking on the daunting task of trying to get me to give interesting answers.\n\nYou can read <a href=\"http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/29071\" target=\"_blank\">more about this interesting series of events here</a>, and browse the list of writers involved over the next few months. Maxim kicks the event off on September 27 talking to Sarah Dunant.','Talk at the Italian Institute, February 21','','publish','open','open','','talk-at-the-italian-institute-february-21','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5833',0,'post','',0),(6183,1,'2011-01-27 16:46:59','2011-01-27 16:46:59','http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/wordpress.2010-01-01.2011-03-01.xml_.txt','wordpress.2010-01-01.2011-03-01.xml_.txt','','inherit','open','open','','wordpress-2010-01-01-2011-03-01-xml_-txt','','','2011-01-27 16:46:59','2011-01-27 16:46:59','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/wordpress.2010-01-01.2011-03-01.xml_.txt',0,'attachment','',0),(6185,1,'2010-09-10 17:05:35','2010-09-10 16:05:35','Well yes, but don\'t get too excited. In theory the K3 is a wonderful deal,  particularly if you choose the 3G model which, in theory at least, gives you free web access pretty much anywhere in the world.\r\n\r\nIn practice? Web browsing is marked as experimental, remember. If you need access to the web in an emergency it may be fine. On a day to day basis, take a look for yourself... and remember this is on broadband, not 3G, using the bookmarks that come with the Kindle out of the box.\r\n\r\n[youtube]1ynDSF9blfE[/youtube]','Can you browse the web on the Kindle 3?','','publish','open','open','','can-you-browse-the-web-on-the-kindle-3','','','2011-01-28 11:11:01','2011-01-28 11:11:01','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5836',0,'post','',0),(6186,1,'2010-09-13 10:26:58','2010-09-13 09:26:58','<div class=\"zemanta-img\">\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"240\" caption=\"Pullman: not impressed\"]<a href=\"http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Pullman_2005-04-16.png\"><img class=\" \" title=\"Philip Pullman signing a copy of Lyra\'s Oxford...\" src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Philip_Pullman_2005-04-16.png/300px-Philip_Pullman_2005-04-16.png\" alt=\"Philip Pullman signing a copy of Lyra\'s Oxford...\" width=\"240\" height=\"337\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n</div>\nOh dear. The Booker shortlist has sparked a controversy. How often does that happen? This time it’s because half of the books – three novels in all – are written in the present tense (throughout one assumes).\n\nPhilip Pullman and Philip Hensher have both weighed in against the use of the present tense. Pullman says, ‘This wretched fad has been spreading more and more widely. I can’t see the appeal at all. To my mind it drastically narrows the options available to the writer. When a language has a range of tenses such as the perfect, the imperfect, the pluperfect, each of which makes other kinds of statement possible, why on earth not use them?’\n\nMakes a lot of sense to me. I don’t aim for the Booker, of course. I am merely a journeyman writer of fiction for general consumption. I will use the present tense occasionally, but only for brief passages when I want to bump the reader out of some comfortable position and bring them closer to the characters at a dramatic moment in the story. An entire book in the present tense seems to me a touch flat and indigestible, and rather restricting for both writer and author too. It gets a bit wearing frankly, not that I’ve read any of the three on the list so perhaps the Booker judges are right, and present tense is fine throughout in sufficiently skilled hands.\n\nTemperamentally though I’m with Pullman. Books are about richness, of language and imagination. For me the present strips away some of the magic.\n\n<em><a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7994914/Philip-Pullman-and-Philip-Hensher-criticise-Booker-Prize-for-including-present-tense-novels.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Telegraph on the controversy</a></em>','Writing in the present tense','','publish','open','open','','writing-in-the-present-tense','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/writing-in-the-present-tense/',0,'post','',0),(6188,1,'2010-09-15 10:22:39','2010-09-15 09:22:39','Mostly I edit on laptops, which is something I can do on a small and modest screen. But currently I\'m engaged on a project -- which should be public soon -- that means some hefty writing and rejigging while on the move.\n\nLittle laptops don\'t cut it for that. You don\'t get enough stuff on the screen. And here\'s the rub. A lot of big laptops don\'t cut it either. \'Stuff on screen\' depends upon resolution, how many dots there go to make up what you see .\n\nConsider this: my lovely little Packard Bell Butterfly Touch portable has an 11.6 inch screen with a resolution of 1366 by 768 dots. What do you get if you go out and buy one of those big 15.6 or even 16 inch laptops? A much bigger screen. Usually with a resolution of 1366 by 768 dots. In other words they look the same, only bigger.\n\n<!--more-->Yes, you can fiddle around in Word by making the text smaller to fit more in. But the space available for everything else remains the same, and frankly I hate it. If that\'s all there is I\'d rather take along the Butterfly Touch.\n\nThe answer lies in finding a laptop with a higher resolution screen. My old MacBook Pro had a screen that was 1440 by 900, which fits in a bit more but not much. If you shell out megabucks you can get a MB Pro with a higher resolution screen of 1680 by 1050. But my Apple days are past.\n\nHow easy is it to find a Windows laptop with higher resolution? Not at all. I couldn\'t find one in any local computer store, and most models sold simply seem to stick with that standard resolution. Finally I latched onto a Dell Studio XPS 16, bought through Dell\'s outlet store via eBay. Not cheap at £899, but a sight cheaper than it would have been bought direct from Dell, and perhaps half the price of an Apple equivalent if there were one.\n\nIt\'s a sixteen inch screen, which makes for a big laptop. But it\'s got a beautiful keyboard and the screen on this one is an expansive 1920 by 1080. Exactly the same resolution as my 24-inch desktop monitor as it happens. So what works there, works here.\n\nAt six pounds plus in weight I won\'t lug it everywhere. But for heavy writing and editing it seems pretty perfect. I\'ll be lugging it to Venice later this week to find out. Here is the beast below...\n\nI\'ve found out one thing already though. BBC iPlayer on it is pretty amazing. So I\'ll certainly be taking along some telly too.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5853\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"490\" caption=\"Dell Studio XPS 16\"]<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rimg0077.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5853\" title=\"Dell Studio XPS 16\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rimg0077.jpg\" alt=\"Dell Studio XPS 16\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" /></a>[/caption]','A new writing laptop','','publish','open','open','','a-new-writing-laptop','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5852',0,'post','',0),(6191,1,'2010-09-16 09:43:00','2010-09-16 08:43:00','The only thing I miss about the Mac – and yes, I do mean the <em>only</em> thing – is <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scrivener</a>. Well next month Scrivener 2 will finally be out. Just so you don’t think this is a Google-style upgrade, i.e. one of those things that gets rushed out every three months or so, let me reveal a little secret.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/general.png\"><img title=\"General\" alt=\"General\" style=\"display:inline;margin:0 0 15px;\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/general_thumb.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" /></a>I’ve been working with a beta of V2 of Scrivener for something like two years, perhaps even more. <em>The Blue Demon</em> was finished with it. <em>The Fallen Angel</em> was written in it entirely. <em>The Plague Doctor, </em>which you will get in 2012, was also a Scrivener 2 beta production.\n\nNever crashed, never caused me any problems. Keith, Scrivener’s creator, has <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/?p=133\" target=\"_blank\">now given a preview of the features of the release version</a> when it comes out. Well worth a look – they go well beyond anything in the betas I used and will make this already great app even more useful.\n\nLooking forward to the Windows version, Keith!','Scrivener 2&#8211;looking yummy','','publish','open','open','','scrivener-2looking-yummy','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/scrivener-2looking-yummy/',0,'post','',0),(6194,1,'2010-09-19 17:01:50','2010-09-19 16:01:50','... flipped open while we were wandering around San Polo today and I saw this.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rimg00831.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5865\" title=\"Time Out Venice\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rimg00831.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"295\" /></a>\n\nVery flattered to be mentioned in such a great guide. I\'ve bought every edition over the years, and the one I used more than ten years ago when writing that book was incredibly useful. The novel is, of course, now <em>The Cemetery of Secrets</em> in the UK, though all the places I mentioned are much the same.','Page 104 of the Time Out Guide to Venice...','','publish','open','open','','page-104-of-the-time-out-guide-to-venice','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=5862',0,'post','',0),(6196,1,'2010-09-23 07:55:00','2010-09-23 06:55:00','Writing apps for the iPad seem to be improving. Not that I’ve the slightest interest still in buying one of the things. Happy enough with my Kindle for reading and a laptop for work. Also when the internet went down in Venice for an hour yesterday I was able to pick up my email <em>for free</em> through the 3G connection on the Kindle. Using data on an iPad abroad is very expensive – if it works, and some networks don’t even allow data roaming (or at least they didn’t at launch).\n\nHere’s one of the newer iPad apps for writing from <a href=\"http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/writer-for-ipad/\" target=\"_blank\">Information Architects</a>. iPad Writer looks fine.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/id392502056.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5870\" title=\"iPad Writer\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/id392502056.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"228\" /></a>\n\nBut notice one thing. That line…\n<blockquote>What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.</blockquote>\nThis was the approach taken by a Mac app that drove me nuts too, <a href=\"http://www.the-soulmen.com/ulysses/\" target=\"_blank\">Ulysses</a>. What it meant in practice was: forget writing anything in italics. Italics, you see, are a distraction. Real writers should never have to think about formatting. Just words.\n\nWell this one doesn’t. My books use foreign words that need to be written in italics. Occasionally I will use italics in text for emphasis too. In Ulysses that was virtually impossible. It’s doable in the current version with some fiddling. In iPad Writer it seems utterly impossible.\n\nWhy?\n\nIf writing without any formatting works for you, fine. But people who produce writing software should realise that for some of us italics – not bold, nothing fancy – are essential. Leaving them out means we can’t think of looking at their product. In general I agree that writing is about words, not formatting. But a piece of software that refuses to let me type a simple italic is simply of no use at all.','Italics are not a luxury','','publish','open','open','','italics-are-not-a-luxury','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/italics-are-not-a-luxury/',0,'post','',10),(6197,1,'2010-09-23 15:15:42','2010-09-23 14:15:42','More than a decade ago when I first started visiting Venice regularly it was generally accepted that the standard of restaurant food was poor. Overpriced, often with poor service, low in quality… and riddled with rip-offs typified by the waiter who announces, ‘I am the menu – now I tell you what to eat.’ And never mentions the prices of course…\n\nFive years ago the standard of restaurant food was greatly improved. You still forked out plenty but at least it wasn’t that hard to find something edible. Sadly, after four weeks here this year, I have to report the clock is going backwards. Restaurant food in Venice today is ridiculously expensive and dreadfully erratic in quality. I no longer recommend restaurants here any more – they change so quickly it’s futile. So what you get here are simply reports of places I’ve liked and loathed this year. I always stay in apartments so far and away the best food I’ve eaten is at home, from delis and supermarkets. Even if you’re in a hotel it’s easy to grab some bread and cheese and snack in a warm corner – which is far preferable to the rip-off miseries out there.\n\nAnyway… first, the <strong>outstanding.</strong>\n\n<!--more-->\n\nYou can’t beat a good Venetian cafe and <strong>Mille Vini</strong>, one of several in the ever more popular Campo Santa Margherita in Dorsoduro, is the best I’ve ever found. Lovely food – salads, cheese plates, panini – great wine and coffee, extremely friendly staff (who speak English and are very helpful to tourists). A euro 9.50 plate of lovely cheeses saved an appalling evening where we’d been stiffed for 70 euros for one of the worst restaurant experiences I’ve known anywhere (of which more later). Open at lunchtimes till late in the evening, tel 041 5223436. There is a branch near the Rialto too but I didn’t visit.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tavernasanlio.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Taverna San Lio</strong></a> is in Salizada San Lio, a busy route from Rialto to San Marco and close to both. Part of a small bed and breakfast place, this is somewhere I moaned about in January when one evening I was lured in by a menu del giorno which only applied at lunchtimes. But the food was good and today we went back and tried that euro 19 menu. Fantastic. Two different types of pasta, one cheese ravioli, one with mussels, then a frittura mista that included calamari, shrimp, fish and a range of crunchy vegetables. Plus a dessert. The wine is superb at five euros a glass, which makes this a touch less of a bargain. But a lovely place with welcoming staff and plenty of room between the tables. It’s very modern looking and may not match up to the general picture of Venetian trattoria but I’m starting to think that’s a good thing.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_5879\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"490\" caption=\"Frittura Mista, San Lio\"]<a href=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dscf1215.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5879\" title=\"Frittura Mista, San Lio\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dscf1215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nNow to <strong>the good.</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.murovinoecucina.it\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Muro Venezia</strong></a><strong> </strong>have three restaurants in Venice but please don’t call them a chain. Again these are very modern-looking places, with helpful multilingual staff and a range of dishes. We went to the Frari branch, the newest and perhaps smallest. The pizzas ran to around euros 12 a time but were huge and beautifully cooked (you’ve no idea how hard it can be to get decent pizza in Venice). There was meat and fish too. If you want to eat at busy times I suspect it’s worth booking.\n\n<strong>Osteria ai Pugni</strong> is right by the Ponte dei Pugni bridge over the San Barnaba canal in Dorsoduro. More a cafe than a restaurant, it\'s open from breakfast till late at night, serving great coffee, pastries, pasta and an excellent wine list. Short on space for a posh meal but great and friendly for filling up, and at very reasonable prices. Its sister establishment, the Cafe Ai Artisti, round the corner in Campo San Barnaba, has seats outside where you can get two spritzes of an evening for five euros, which for a pretty seat in the open is a bargain in Venice.\n\nThe good section is short. That was it.\n\nHere come two restaurants <strong>in limbo</strong>, places I’ve enjoyed in the past but now avoid. Maybe one day they will redeem themselves. In Venice who knows? The first is <a href=\"http://www.hostariadafranz.com/indexeng.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hostaria Da Franz</strong></a>, an incredibly expensive upmarket spot near Giardini, beloved of movie stars during the festival. This was the scene of possibly the best, and certainly most pricey, meal I’ve ever eaten. Hasn’t been that great since and at this price you expect perfection, or as near as dammit. I walked past to sniff the menu. Much changed, and no longer has a frittura, which used to be superb. Not convinced frankly…\n\nThe second is <a href=\"http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187870-d716282-Reviews-La_Furatola-Venice_Veneto.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>La Furatola</strong></a><strong> </strong>in San Barnaba in Dorsoduro, in the little alley leading off from the campo which houses several restaurants (more on one later) and even a Japanese tea room.\n\nThis used to be a slightly less expensive and ambitious equivalent of Da Franz, with lots of fresh fish, especially fritture. Ate there for lunch in May. For euros 45 I got one plate of tired fried fish, a salad and a glass of wine. Not good. Walked past last Saturday night and the place was half full, which is unheard of in San Barnaba. And they were offering a euros 25 special summer menu, again unheard of. Trouble is I still haven’t expunged the memory of that last meal. Maybe one day.\n\nLet us move on <strong>to the bad. </strong>We don’t have to travel very far for the first entry. This is in that San Barnaba alley and is an outlet of a growing chain, <a href=\"http://www.panevinospa.it/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pane Vino e San Daniele</strong></a>, which has places all over Italy. One test of a real Italian restaurant is that you can order nothing more for lunch than pasta and the waiter won’t moan. Not here. If you look in the window this seems quite a reasonably priced place – panini, ham, cheese, pasta specials and much more expensive meat dishes. We ordered two plates of pasta. The grumpy waiter sighed. You could almost hear him mutter, ‘Cheapskates’. We’re not actually. We just wanted a plate of pasta.\n\nHe tried to get us to order the special starter for two, a massive plate of mainly meat that the couple at the next table were clearly struggling with. No thanks. He persisted. How about we just <em>try</em> a plate of ‘his special ham’? San Daniele ham is very good, actually, so I gave into this thuggish customer-bullying. He didn’t look as if he’d leave until we’d ordered more anyway.\n\nThe ham was beautiful. One plate of pasta was OK. The other was dire. He barely spoke a civil word to us throughout. We hadn’t ordered enough to be worthwhile you see. This is the Venetian restaurant attitude of old, and you wonder, really, how these people manage to stay in business.\n\nAnother bad one, and I hate saying this, is the little working class eating hole of <strong>Ae Do Porte </strong>in Castello, not far from Zanipolo. This used to be great for a quick two course meal with a little wine, and full of local workmen filling their faces in a pretty wooden dining room unchanged much since the 1950s. The menu is now euros 17, the pasta was OK, the chicken turned out to be a skewer with beef, sausage and pork on it, and my pork fillet wasn’t much better. Nice people, not worth the effort.\n\nNow to the clincher. The most <strong>worst place I’ve eaten in Venice</strong>, or anywhere else, in a very long time. <strong>Do Farai </strong>is close to Campo Santa Margherita and a stone’s throw from where we’re staying. If you read <a href=\"http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187870-d1088070-Reviews-Do_Farai-Venice_Veneto.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tripadvisor</a> you’d think it was fishy heaven on earth.\n\nOh no. Oh so very much no. We walked in and found there was only one other table eating, a bunch of Americans who were ordering everything, including the ‘whole fish sold by weight’, a very dangerous thing to do indeed. The bread was stale. The house wine came in a half bottle only and was appalling. The service was, er, erratic.\n\nI fancied <em>frittura mista</em>. It was off. Off? In a fish restaurant? One just a few metres from a square with three or four excellent fish stalls during the day? Unbelievable. So we ordered the mixed fishy starter to share, then Venetian liver and a plate of grilled langoustines. To be fair the starters were lovely, and included razor clams, polenta, sarde en saor and scallops. I wish I’d had them as a main course.\n\nThe liver was OK, nothing more. My langoustines were grilled langoustines. We were getting the ‘you haven’t really ordered enough’ signals, so we ate what little was in front of us and left – euros 70 the poorer, for very little food and a half bottle of dreadful wine.\n\nThat was when the inexpensive plate of beautiful cheese in Mille Vini saved us, for which I’m grateful. And while we were there someone asked where we’d eaten and rolled their eyes when we said the name, ‘Do Farai’. Looking back it was incredibly expensive but the food itself was OK to mainly. What stuck in my memory was the weird atmosphere and that horrible stale bread. There are any number of decent bakeries on the doorstep. I could have popped into the supermarket round the corner and bought a couple of fresh rolls for next to nothing. Why inflict this on people – and then give them a colossal bill?\n\nOh well, as someone once said, ‘You don’t come to Venice for the food.’ Thank God we didn’t.\n\nI do hope the places we loved stay loveable for the next trip.','Eating out in Venice: a struggle','','publish','open','open','','eating-out-in-venice-a-struggle','','','2011-01-27 22:47:07','2011-01-27 22:47:07','',0,'https://davidhewson.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/eating-out-in-venice-a-struggle/',0,'post','',0),(6198,1,'2010-09-23 16:34:26','2010-09-23 15:34:26','','Frittura Mista, San Lio','Frittura Mista, San Lio','inherit','open','open','','dscf1215','','','2010-09-23 16:34:26','2010-09-23 15:34:26','',6197,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/09/dscf12152.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6199,1,'2010-09-26 15:50:11','2010-09-26 14:50:11','','Alexander_III_and_Ollamh_Rígh','','inherit','open','open','','alexander_iii_and_ollamh_righ','','','2010-09-26 15:50:11','2010-09-26 14:50:11','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/09/alexander_iii_and_ollamh_righ5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6200,1,'2010-09-26 15:51:25','2010-09-26 14:51:25','','Alexander_III_and_Ollamh_Rígh','','inherit','open','open','','alexander_iii_and_ollamh_righ-2','','','2010-09-26 15:51:25','2010-09-26 14:51:25','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/09/alexander_iii_and_ollamh_righ12.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6201,1,'2010-09-26 15:53:52','2010-09-26 14:53:52','','Alexander_III_and_Ollamh_Rígh','','inherit','open','open','','alexander_iii_and_ollamh_righ-3','','','2010-09-26 15:53:52','2010-09-26 14:53:52','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/09/alexander_iii_and_ollamh_righ22.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6209,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','It’s a scorching summer in Rome. Sara Farnese sits in the Vatican Library. The streets are deserted. A man walks towards her. He is familiar. He is carrying a blood-stained bag…\r\nStefano’s left arm, the one holding the weapon, swept the table, swept everything on it, the precious volume of Apicius, her expensive notebook computer, down to the hard marble floor with a clatter. He said in a loud voice that was half crazy, half dead, ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.’\r\nAs 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 begins to see a pattern in the killings that follow, murders that seem to mimic the grisly martyrdoms of the early Church.\r\n\r\nRacked by personal anxiety over his dying father, Costa starts on the long journey to uncover the truth about these horrific crimes, whatever the cost, whatever the pain. From the inner quarters of the Vatican, desperate to hide a financial embarrassment, to the poorer, squalid bed-sits where the city’s immigrants try to eke out a living, Costa takes on any who crosses his path, however influential, however damaging the cost to his career.\r\n\r\nShunned as the son of a Communist, treated with suspicion by many of those around him, Costa relies on his own intelligence and integrity to find a way into the life of the mysterious Sara Farnese, and unlock the key to the case. But it’s a journey that comes with a terrible risk, and a cost he can never foresee.\r\n\r\nReviews\r\n\r\nBookReporter.Com\r\n\r\n‘…breathtaking… a dark delight, a story that one is compelled to read at one sitting while simultaneously wishing it will never end.’\r\n\r\nPublisher’s Weekly\r\n\r\nOutsized, eccentric characters, a complex story and an abundance of historical detail make this engrossing book more than just another cookie-cutter, religious-nut serial killer thriller.\r\n\r\nWashington Post\r\n\r\nA Season for the Dead, like The Da Vinci Code, is a thriller that takes an unflattering look at the Catholic Church, but it is better written and more sophisticated than Dan Brown’s phenomenal bestseller… The books differ, too, in that Hewson, far more than Brown or most thriller writers, has a serious concern for character.\r\n\r\nHewson gives us lyrical moments (during a storm, “the city looked like the bowl of some fantastic fountain designed by a drunken Bernini”) and bizarre moments, as when the killer, in clerical robes, awaiting a victim, listens on headphones to Cannonball Adderley’s great recording of “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” the point being that he has none. Amid revelations of police corruption, unexpected parentage, incest and betrayal, Hewson concocts a climactic scene in a little church called San Luigi dei Francesi…\r\n\r\nLit by candles, Caravaggio’s painting of the martyrdom of Saint Matthew gazes down from the wall (”the naked madman murdering the prone Matthew on the ground, sword raised, ready to deliver the final blow”). One crazed character “stumbled forward, colliding with terrified bodies in the darkness, yelling every obscenity he could think of, screaming his father’s name, begging the black maw of the nave to give up his body for vengeance.”\r\n\r\nLet me tell you, this is great stuff. A Season for the Dead, if sometimes blissfully over the top, is intelligent entertainment… Praise be!\r\n\r\nDallas Morning News\r\n\r\nMr Hewson’s suspenseful, fascinating mystery has an appealing detective and many complex characters on both sides of the law. Twisting and turning through Italian history and art, Nic Costa’s first case gives the serial murder mystery a new look.\r\n\r\nChattanooga Times Free Press, Tennessee\r\n\r\nThis enthralling story has it all: believable heroes, villains and even minor characters, exotic setting, history, religion, gruesome violence and steamy sex. Best of all, it’s so seamlessly put together that time flies as you flip pages to get to the end. Atmospheric and captivating, Hewson’s novel has all the elements needed for the complete thriller-reading experience. This is one not to miss.\r\n\r\nRocky Mountain News\r\n\r\nThere will be inevitable comparisons between this novel and The Da Vinci Code because of the Italian setting, the Vatican connection and the Caravaggio association. But A Season for the Deaddoes not expose artistic or religious frauds nor attempt to rewrite history. This is, instead, a complicated and engrossing mystery so compelling that it begs for a one-night reading.\r\n\r\nThe good news is that this is only the first novel to star Nic Costa. Hewson said in a recent interview that he created Costa as “a good guy, an unfinished, slightly naive, innocent person … a character who was in transition.” In a proposed six-book series, he will follow the policeman and his cohorts through other adventures as they attempt not only to solve crimes but deal honestly with a society that is not always honest itself.”Most of my books aren’t whodunits; they’re more whydunits,” Hewson explained. And that is just what makes them so fascinating.\r\n\r\nStar Tribune, Minneapolis\r\n\r\nThis atmospheric thriller begins in the Vatican library and winds around the ancient streets and churches of Rome. Detective Nic Costa is working on a series of gruesome murders that mimics the martyrdom of early Christian saints – and seems to revolve around the mysterious Sara Farnese, a professor of Early Christian history. Costa finds himself drawn to her cool beauty as well. Hewson’s absorbing series debut features a memorable cast of fully human characters, imagines the distorted mind of a serial killer and takes a chilling glimpse into the Vatican’s less-than-godly dealings with the secular world.\r\n\r\nLibrary Journal\r\n\r\nIt’s a suspenseful thriller, cleverly plotted with great characters and a real look at the back streets of Rome and the darker streets of the Vatican.\r\n\r\nOklahaman\r\n\r\n… a delicious and compelling view of the public art of Rome and the private intrigue of the Vatican. Recommended for most popular fiction collections; blooming Costa fans will be pleased to know that Hewson plans a series of novels featuring the detective.\r\n\r\nMystery Lovers.Com\r\n\r\nA fast-paced tour of Rome with a nice combo of serial killer thriller and Vatican conspiracy novel.\r\n\r\nDeadly Pleasures\r\n\r\nWhat makes Hewson worth reading is not only the well-realized setting, but also, to Americans, the exotic European characters, especially the two Italian cops. The action is well paced, the plot nicely twisted, the characters often chameleon-like, and the setting is definitely fascinating for many readers. Overall, this is a well written mystery with some real surprises at the end.\r\n\r\nBirmingham Post\r\n\r\nDavid Hewson… has written mysteries set abroad before now, especially Spain, and is one of several crime writers opting for an Italian setting these days. On this form, Hewson is certainly the leader of the pack.\r\n\r\nPublishing News\r\n\r\nThe first in a promising Italian crime series set in Rome … Hewson’s way with the Roman milieu is as cutting edge as his adroit narrative.\r\n\r\nSunday Mercury\r\n\r\nAn oddball detective mistrusted by his bosses, a beautiful woman, the elegant backdrop of Rome and sinister goings-on in the Vatican all add up to a new spin on the serial killer tale…All of this works not simply because of the frenetic plot but because Hewson has two beguiling, fascinating characters to hold our interest… (he) has a lightness of touch, an eye for the macabre and an understanding that you can’t beat the old fatal attraction between an all-too-human cop and a beautiful woman.','','','publish','open','open','','6209','','','2011-04-20 16:18:23','2011-04-20 15:18:23','',3302,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6209',10,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6210,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','Picture: Mark Bothwell\r\nSome basic facts. My novels have been translated into a wide range of languages, from Italian to Japanese, and my debut work, Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino.\r\n\r\nI was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and left school at the age of seventeen to work as a cub reporter on one of the smallest evening newspapers in the country in Scarborough. Eight years later I was a staff reporter on The Times in London, covering news, business and latterly working as arts correspondent. I worked on the launch of the Independent and was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times for a decade before giving up journalism entirely in 2005 to focus on writing fiction.\r\n\r\nSemana Santa won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for one of the best debut novels of the year in 1996 and was later made into a movie starring Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez. Four standalone works followed before A Season for the Dead, the first in a series set in Italy. The titles are published in numerous languages around the world including Chinese and Japanese… and Italian.\r\n\r\nI’ve featured regularly on the speaker lists of leading international book events, including the Melbourne and Ottawa writers’ festivals, the Harrogate Crime Festival, Thrillerfest, Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime. I’ve taught at writing schools around the world, notably at the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference in Corte Madera, California, where I’ve worked alongside writers such as Martin Cruz Smith and Michael Connelly.\r\n\r\nIn 2006 I launched a campaigning web-site save-wye which was instrumental in a successful battle to prevent one of the largest environmental threats to the countryside of Kent in southern England. My non-fiction book on the campaign to defend Wye from development, Saved, was published in May 2007. I live close to Wye, Kent.','','','publish','open','open','','6210','','','2011-04-20 16:18:26','2011-04-20 15:18:26','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6210',29,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6212,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','Almost all of the books listed here are widely available in a variety of media including audio. For details of individual titles please contact my audio and large print publisher WF Howes.\r\n\r\nYou can buy titles, and listen to previews, at Whole Story Audio. You will also find my audio books available for download on Audible UK and Audible US.\r\n\r\nPlease note that all of my audio books are unabridged.','','','publish','open','open','','6212','','','2011-04-20 16:18:27','2011-04-20 15:18:27','',4354,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6212',35,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6213,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','Over the last through years, largely thanks to my membership of International Thrillerwriters, I’ve been able to collaborate with some great writers around the world. You can read about details of a few here, including The Chopin Manuscript, which won the audiobook of the year award and its new sequel, The Copper Bracelet as well as Thriller 2.','','','publish','open','open','','6213','','','2011-04-20 16:18:25','2011-04-20 15:18:25','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6213',23,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6214,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','You can contact me through the form here. I try to answer all mail but life is very busy at the moment. For that reason I regret I’m unable to blurb any books right now or offer individual advice.\r\n\r\n[contact-form]','','','publish','open','open','','6214','','','2011-04-20 16:18:27','2011-04-20 15:18:27','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6214',31,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6215,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','Available in a new and fully revised edition from Pan Macmillan, November 2010\r\n\r\nHoly Week in Seville… and a murderer is loose. Academic Maria Gutierrez can see something in his ways that the police are missing. But her insight does nothing to help her popularity in the force-and draws her to the attention of the killer.\r\n\r\nThe Angel Brothers, two controversial modern artists, are found dead in a southern Spanish city, in a killing that emulates a famous painting. Visiting academic Maria Gutierrez was supposed to be an observer to the police investigation. But her own past in the city soon puts her one step ahead of the cops… and in the killer’s sights.\r\n\r\nTranslated into many languages, and a continuing summer hit in Germany, Semana Santa was first published in 1996 and marked my world debut as a novelist with a dark and powerful tale set in a region of Europe most English language writers ignored at the time. The story was later made into a movie with Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez, marketed in the US as Angel of Death.\r\n\r\nI’ve now rewritten the book, placing the story in real-life Seville and introducing some new elements, and will be republished as Death in Seville by Pan Macmillan in autumn 2010. Many thanks to all of you who went out and bought the reissue of The Cemetery of Secrets since it was the success of that revived book that helped make this possible.\r\n\r\nNow available on audio\r\nThanks to my very enthusiastic audio publisher you can now get this book in the original edition on audio, beautifully narrated by Sean Barrett. I’m grateful to everyone at WF Howes for making this possible','','','publish','open','open','','6215','','','2011-04-20 16:18:24','2011-04-20 15:18:24','',3320,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6215',16,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6216,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','Now available for the first time in a decade. Get it instantly as a Kindle ebook on Amazon UK and Amazon US.\r\n\r\nPalo Alto, northern California, 1975\r\n\r\nA child goes missing in northern California. Twenty years later, people want to know why, and the past begins to unravel for a group of former friends who thought they’d escaped it forever.\r\n\r\nSeattle 1995\r\n\r\nA group of students retire to a remote house to experiment with LSD. One, Michael Quinn, kidnaps a child. A body is found. And for the rest of the group the battle to escape justice begins.\r\n\r\nTwenty years on, with Quinn about to be unexpectedly released from jail, a mysterious young Englishwoman, Joni Lascelles, arrives in the city, asking questions about the kidnapping, unravelling the past for those who thought it was long dead. The horror of the past comes to engulf the present, leaving no-one untouched by its power. Turn by turn, shifting effortlessly between two eras twenty years apart, the story is played out with relentless compulsion to an overwhelming climax.\r\n\r\nEpiphany was my second book. It was completed it in the summer of 1995 while he was still waiting for Semana Santa to be published. At the time he was spending a lot of journalistic time visiting San Francisco and Seattle. The contrast between the two – California with its lost innocence, and Seattle with its hard, uncompromising Nineties materialism- was what provoked the book. It’s a complex, ambitious piece of work.\r\n\r\nI’m still pretty pleased with this work. I’ve written nothing quite like it since and, to be honest, it’s pretty damn scary. I’ve now taken a scalpel to the original and revised it from top to bottom. It’s been republished as an eBook on Smashwords for $4.95, in a variety of different formats for modern ereaders and PCs. This is very much an experiment on my part. I’d like to see what happens if an established author puts backlist out there this way. I’ll be telling you how it goes in the blog too.\r\n\r\nJohn Fowles on acid. The Guardian\r\n\r\nThe atmosphere of mystery, menace and guilt is sustained with great skill, building tension to a seismic explosion as ghoulish characters squirm to escape a relentless past returning to destroy them. Daily Telegraph\r\n\r\nDavid Hewson has an altogether wider range of literary and cultural reference than most thrillers. Impressive… Esquire','','','publish','open','open','','6216','','','2011-04-20 16:18:25','2011-04-20 15:18:25','',3320,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6216',22,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6217,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','November 5\r\n\r\nUK launch of Death in Seville, a revised version of my first book Semana Santa, set in Andalucia.\r\n\r\nFebruary 4, 2011\r\n\r\nUK launch of the ninth Costa book, The Fallen Angel. \r\n\r\nFebruary 21, 2011\r\n\r\n\r\nI’ll be taking part in a series of literary talks at the Italian Institute in London next year, curated by Maxim Jakubowski. My gig is on February 21 which ties in neatly with the launch of the ninth Costa novel, The Fallen Angel. The brave Barry Forshaw will be taking on the daunting task of trying to get me to give interesting answers.\r\n\r\nYou can read more about this interesting series of events here, and browse the list of writers involved over the next few months. Maxim kicks the event off on September 27 talking to Sarah Dunant.\r\n\r\n','','','publish','open','open','','6217','','','2011-04-20 16:18:27','2011-04-20 15:18:27','',4354,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6217',34,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6218,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:45','2011-01-27 16:59:45','We have a range of publicity shots available for free. The shots are by Mark Bothwell. You can browse the gallery by clicking the photograph below. This will take you to Flickr where you can choose the size of the image you’d like to download. Please credit the photographer.\r\n\r\n','','','publish','open','open','','6218','','','2011-04-20 16:18:27','2011-04-20 15:18:27','',4354,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6218',33,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6219,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','Read this book for free now on Scribd\r\nNative Rites is a book about a set of people who will do whatever it takes to safeguard their own, precious, privileged existences. A young couple move to a new rural home. Miles commutes to the city each day leaving his American wife Alison to get to know the locals.\r\n\r\nOne September day they both visit the ancient bonfire ritual. Maybe Alison was drunk. Maybe not. But she felt sure something terrible happened, and that at least some of those close to her knew it too.\r\n\r\nIs she paranoid? Or is there really some dark conspiracy happening in this small piece of paradise? Alison is determined to find out, whatever the cost, however much the truth may shatter her illusions about the cosy, comfortable green heaven she’s found herself in.\r\n\r\nNative Rites asks how far we would go to defend our notion of Englishness. Answer: as far as we need.\r\n\r\nThe landscape in which the book is set is still glorious, and hopefully a little too remote for the house builders and sightless urban politicians of England to despoil it soon. And you can visit without fear of winding up in the middle of some secret, sacrificial rite. Take a copy of Rites to the area of east Kent, between Wye, Folkestone and Canterbury, and you will encounter strange commons called Minnis, and beautiful remote villages that look as if they haven’t changed for centuries. You may even bump into the occasional author too.','','','publish','open','open','','6219','','','2011-04-20 16:18:25','2011-04-20 15:18:25','',3320,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6219',18,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6220,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:45','2011-01-27 16:59:45','For all book inquiries please contact Carole Blake of Blake Friedmann.Carole@blakefriedmann.co.uk \r\n\r\nFor film and TV inquiries please contact Conrad Williams at Blake Friedmann.Conrad@blakefriedmann.co.uk\r\n\r\nBlake Friedmann Literary, Film & TV Agency\r\n122 Arlington Road\r\nLondon NW1 7HP\r\n\r\nTelephone: 020 7284 0408\r\nFax: 020 7284 0442','','','publish','open','open','','6220','','','2011-04-20 16:18:27','2011-04-20 15:18:27','',4354,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6220',32,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6221,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','Read this book for free now on Scribd\r\nI thought my journalism days were behind me. But sometimes life has a habit of turning things around in ways you least expect. In December 2005 I was in Rome researching what was to become The Garden of Evil. Out of the blue I took a phone call which revealed that the large London university Imperial College had very big designs on the area where I was lucky enough to live.\r\n\r\nThe next ten months saw an extraordinary battle by ordinary people pitched against an army of well-paid professional developers trying to turn some of the most beautiful – and protected – countryside in England over to the bulldozer. They were just ordinary citizens appalled by what was being planned, in secret and with the covert support of our own public representatives. The most extraordinary part of all is… we won. After concerted local opposition and a string of revelations on save-wye.org , the web-site I set up as a public forum to discuss Imperial’s plans, the project collapsed.\r\n\r\nYou can read this amazing saga in full for free at the foot of this article. I wrote this story because there are many other people out there who are desperate to know how Wye won where so many others failed. The answer is through luck, determination and some very single-minded people. So in some ways this isn’t a story that far from fiction at all… though every last word is true, even though I occasionally had to pinch himself when reminded of that fact.\r\n\r\nSAVED is a full length account of the true story of this campaign from its opening to close. It’s not hagiography or triumphalist, because this may be a short-lived victory. Nor does it seek to hide the mistakes that were made along the way, because one important thing we learned during this fight was that honest and openness were often the most powerful weapons the Wye campaigners had – and sometimes the only ones.\r\n\r\nI’m grateful to everyone who helped with the Wye campaign, in particular my colleague in the site, Justin Williams, without whom this story would not have had such a satisfactory ending.\r\n\r\nWhat people said about Saved\r\n\r\nRobin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book, ‘David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.”‘\r\n\r\nJonathon Porritt, the well-known environmentalist who is now Founder Director of Forum for the Future, writes, ‘This is a fascinating book, full of insights into the workings of local politics, new, web-based ways of campaigning, different environmental tactics, and institutions as powerful as they are unaccountable.\r\n\r\n‘As a result of a wonderfully effective campaign, this little corner of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent is safe for now. But as the author himself points out, the agents of the kind of wholly unsustainable development that is still eroding our countryside will never give up and never go away. With local democracy in such a state of disrepair, in so many parts of the land, many more battles of this kind will still need to be fought.’\r\n\r\nShaun Spiers, chief executive, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said, ‘Imperial College’s science park plan for Wye was in essence a smash and grab operation, designed to let the university cash in on its greenfield AONB landholding around a beautiful Kent village.\r\n\r\nThat it failed was largely thanks to the website save-wye, the brief but gripping history of which is chronicled in this book. We in CPRE were delighted to offer the local campaigners help and support.\r\n\r\nThere is much in Saved to worry countryside campaigners, but also much to cheer them. The role of the local council is depressing, as is the failure of most local media to question the developer’s official line.\r\n\r\nYet the book also shows that schemes such as Wye Park can be defeated, however impressive their official backing, and that journalism and the democratic process in their truest forms can triumph when the established media and body politic have gone bad.’\r\n\r\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, has kindly contributed the foreword to the book.\r\n\r\nIn it he writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’\r\n\r\n[scribd id=4074917 key=key-2mfq1mtnc5mp7m4pcpzr mode=list]','','','publish','open','open','','6221','','','2011-04-20 16:18:25','2011-04-20 15:18:25','',3320,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6221',20,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6222,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','It’s hot, unbearably hot, in a way that makes people wonder if the world isn’t changing fundamentally for the worse. Back in 1996 when this book was first started, that seemed an unusual idea. Today no-one would question it.\r\n\r\nSolstice is a book about man’s neglect of his own planet and a group of people who decide to take matters into their own hands. A core of hardened eco-terrorists have taken control of a Cold War weapon developed in secret by the Reagan administration. It gives them the power to turn the focus of the sun’s radiation on any part of the world they choose.\r\n\r\nMichael Lieberman, a renegade scientist who knows the leader of the gang from his academic work in the past, is reluctantly force to take on the role of their opponent, trying to stop their deliberate attempt to force an environmental disaster on some of the world’s major cities.\r\n\r\nSolstice presaged the emergence of terrorists who were willing to sacrifice their own lives for no other end except to harm others. It also foresaw the use of the then new technology of the internet to foster havoc among agencies grounded in the practices of another era. This is a dystopian image of a damaged future, one that persuaded Time Warner to take me on as a future techno-thriller writer in the vein of Michael Crichton. But that just wasn’t me… though I still have fond memories of this book.\r\n\r\nIndependence Day reimagined for grown-ups. A smart synthesis of science fiction and planet-in-peril cliffhanger. Sunday Times\r\n\r\nA remarkably well-written thriller… Hewson’s science is both complex and authentic. And-perhaps even more impressive for a techno-thriller-so are his characters. Kirkus Reviews\r\n\r\nRichly imagined… as high-tech concepts go they don’t get much hotter than this. Michael Cordy, author of The Miracle Strain','','','publish','open','open','','6222','','','2011-04-20 16:18:25','2011-04-20 15:18:25','',3320,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6222',21,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6223,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','I never wanted overnight success, which is just as well the way things turned out. What I sought most from writing was the chance to tell a range of stories over an extended period of time. A career that allowed me free rein to explore the kinds of material that have always interested me.\r\n\r\nI know I get logged as a mystery, crime or thriller author these days, but I honestly haven’t seen myself this way. What I try to write is intelligent, popular fiction, the kind of book that’s been around for centuries. Some of my favourite authors – Robert Graves, MR James, Somerset Maugham, to name a few – managed to do this long ago without the need for labels. Today they seem inevitable but I don’t really try to fit into any particular genre myself.\r\n\r\nLiterature is, in a large part, about the frailty of humankind, and our sad realisation of those weaknesses in ourselves, and how they contrast with the beauty and self sacrifice that sits alongside the bleakness in us all. Crime is a way of representing that dichotomy in our natures, which is why writers have used it as a focal point for their stories for centuries. Does that makeHamlet a crime story? Or Treasure Island? I don’t know and frankly I don’t much care. Stories should speak for themselves, and I think they do.\r\n\r\nBefore Nic Costa came on the scene my career was something of a rollercoaster ride as I tried to identify what exactly I added up to as an author. I veered from thriller sci-fi in Solstice to rural gothic in Native Rites. And where exactly books like Epiphany and The Cemetery of Secrets fit I’ve no idea. Anyway, for the sake of record you can browse my back catalogue here. Not all of these books are in print, however, though most are available on audio. You can still usually find them second hand on places like Amazon if you’re interested.','','','publish','open','open','','6223','','','2011-04-20 16:18:24','2011-04-20 15:18:24','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6223',11,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6224,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','The eighth Nic Costa novel, The Blue Demon(UK) and City of Fear (US), is set entirely in Rome and the area north of the city stretching towards Tuscany known as the Maremma. It’s the first book in the series set in the world of international politics.\r\n\r\nThe narrative takes place over a few days in which Rome comes to a halt with the arrival of a world G8 summit due to take place in the Quirinale Palace, the former pope’s palazzo that sits atop the Quirinal Hill. A minor Italian politician has been kidnapped, apparently in an attempt to extract information about the summit. Costa and Falcone are summoned to the Quirinale for a meeting with the Italian president, Dario Sordi, and his security advisers. There they learn that a former terrorist band known as The Blue Demon, long thought dead, has seemingly revived and is threatening to bring chaos to the city for the summit. Sordi, a wily friend of Costa’s late father, believes there is more to the story than meets the eye and wants him and his friends to look more closely at the background of these home-grown terrorists, led by a former professor of Etruscan studies, Andrea Petrakis.\r\n\r\nAs always I try to blend real Italian history into a modern fictional tale. Part of the story concerns the tragically limited legacy of the Etruscan nation, the predecessors of Imperial Rome who saw their language and culture effectively destroyed when they were defeated by the predecessors of Caesar. While most of the story takes place in Rome there is a brief detour into the Maremma where the vivid and occasionally shocking tombs of the Etruscans have been excavated (and there is a real life Blue Demon, not that he’s easily seen).\r\n\r\nThe story also embraces more modern history, that of the tragic ‘Years of Lead’ when Italy was gripped by domestic terrorism from both left and right. The true nature of these outrages is now largely known. Their real-life provenance may come as a shock to those unfamiliar with recent Italian history which is why I provide a detailed author’s note at the end of the book. Truth sometimes really is stranger than fiction.\r\n\r\nI also wanted to delve a little into Costa’s family background. His father died in the first book of the series, A Season for the Dead. He always struck me as a very interesting character, and I know a number of readers felt the same way. So in this book, through the character of Dario Sordi, we learn more about him and begin to understand something of his fate, and how his own personality shaped that of his son.\r\n\r\nBut these are subterranean currents in what I hope is a fast-moving and exciting story, a tale of intrigue and political assassination of the cruellest kind. It’s no coincidence that Sordi reveals to Costa in the book that a gift he gave his late father comprised the two books Robert Graves wrote, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, about the dangers of life in the Imperial court of Rome two thousand years ago. I write about history not for history’s sake, but to try to point up how little human beings have changed over the millennia. Sordi’s fondness for the books finds him reading them towards the story’s climax, and this is no accident.\r\n\r\nI started writing this story in the summer of 2007 and finished it around July 2008. During that time real-life Italian politics changed enormously. I’m merely a storyteller. I foresaw none of this, nor any of the more recent shenanigans that have shaken the nation’s political classes of late, however much they may seem to mesh with certain aspects of the story.\r\n\r\nReviews\r\n\r\nPublishers Weekly\r\n\r\nA threatened terrorist attack during a G8 conference spells trouble both personal and professional for sovrintendente Nic Costa in Hewson’s assured eighth novel to feature the Roman police detective (after Dante’s Numbers). Italian president Dario Sordi, a former friend of Costa’s late father, asks Costa to look into the re-emergence of the Blue Demon, a strange terrorist group fascinated with Etruscan civilization, which is linked to past and present-day murders of bland civil servants and an imminent strike against the conference delegates. As Costa and his team of investigators examine the trails of evidence more closely, what they find does not match the official facts and reveals uneasy connections to the government and other agents that may point to a larger conspiracy. Well-drawn characters, a brisk pace, and some unexpected plot twists provide a satisfying read for the political thriller fan.\r\n\r\nGood Book Guide\r\n\r\nAnother of Hewson’s impeccably written thrillers with (once again) perfect balance between the exigencies of the thriller plot and the carefully conjured locales. Hewson’s Italian-set crime sequence has, as protagonist, the resourceful Nic Costa, and Costa’s stamping grounds — Venice and Rome — are conjured for the reader in novels that combine atmosphere with judicious plotting. Hewson fans will find The Blue Demon has the usual level of storytelling acumen – with Nic investigating the ritual murder of a politician during a G8 summit in Rome. The plotting has a satisfyingly labyrinthine complexity, proving that Hewson has lost none of his grip.\r\n\r\nYorkshire Evening Post\r\n\r\nThe Italian-based mysteries featuring detective Nic Costa have enabled David Hewson to carve out a prominent position in the crime fiction genre.  And rightly so:  his thoughtful plots and excellent characterisation are a formidable combination.  The Blue Demon – volume eight in the Costa series – finds Hewson at the top of his form’\r\n\r\nBooklist\r\n\r\n*Starred Review* Hewson’s eighth novel starring Rome police  sovrintendente Nic Costa returns to the rich themes that drove The  Garden of Evil (2008): the commingling of sensuality and perverted  idealism. In Garden, the subject was Caravaggio; here it is the  Etruscans, whose hedonistic, life-affirming civilization was crushed by  the Romans.\r\n\r\nAs always, Hewson builds an elaborate  plot, extending deep into ancient history but evoking fascinating  parallels with contemporary situations. Here, the sensitive but largely  ineffectual Italian president, himself sympathetic, like the terrorists,  to the Etruscan way of life, seems overwhelmed by the ruthless,  power-hungry conspirators he opposes, much as the Etruscans were  vanquished by the Romans’ “burning desire to own and rule.” But will  Costa and his determined band of ruggedly individual, antiauthoritarian  colleagues be able to alter the equation? In past reviews, we’ve called  this series a “superb mix of history, mystery, and humanity.” That  assessment is further reaffirmed with each new entry. –Bill Ott\r\n\r\nRichmond Times-Despatch\r\n\r\n…as Hewson spins his tale, the heroics of Nic’s squad lead to what may prove to be a significant departure in the author’s next installment. What will not change, though, given his body of work, is Hewson’s compelling storytelling and elegant prose, his ability to give depth to his characters and his knack for making Italy’s past part of each of his novels.\r\n\r\n“City of Fear” succeeds as a thriller, of course, but this is a novel of greater importance, grounded in history and geopolitics and the inherent falsehoods in each. The weapons-of-mass-destruction crowd might find this smart work of fiction instructive.','','','publish','open','open','','6224','','','2011-04-20 16:18:22','2011-04-20 15:18:22','',3302,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6224',3,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6225,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','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. Crossing centuries, encompassing music, passion and murder, Lucifer’s Shadow gained the ‘highest possible recommendation’ from Bookreporter.com and was hailed as ‘one of the best of 2004? by Deadly Pleasures. Unavailable in the UK for several years, it is now available in a revised edition from Pan Macmillan as The Cemetery of Secrets. The fourth Nic Costa book, The Lizard’s Bite, is a companion piece to this book, featuring some of the same characters.\r\n\r\nFrom the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the city’s mystery. An earnest young academic, Daniel has come for a summer job cataloguing a private collector’s library.\r\n\r\nBut 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.\r\n\r\nWith 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.\r\n\r\nSeparated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal, and danger collide. Sweeping the reader 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, the story builds to a shattering crescendo-and one last, breathtaking surprise.\r\n\r\n…a reassuring sense of solid research underlying the descriptions of Venice, past and present. Hewson handles the two storylines of this brisk, intelligent thriller with aplomb, using each to counterpoint the other in a way that is entirely appropriate to a plot that has so much to do with music. Con brio, one might say. The Spectator\r\n\r\nRichly enjoyable, sophisticated and beguiling entertainment. Sunday Times','','','publish','open','open','','6225','','','2011-04-20 16:18:24','2011-04-20 15:18:24','',3320,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6225',17,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6226,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:45','2011-01-27 16:59:45','Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a priceless, previously-unknown manuscript by Frederic Chopin. Within the notes of this work, which was originally found and hidden by the Nazis during World War II, lies a secret that has left death in its wake – and could kill tens of thousands more.\r\nWinner 2007 Audiobook of the Year\r\nThe Chopin Manuscript is a unique collaboration among 15 distinguished international thriller writers who came together to create a single audiobook with each author contributing a chapter to the ongoing story.\r\n\r\nJeffery Deaver conceived the characters and the setting and put the plot in motion with the first chapter. Then I take the threads of Jeff’s opening chapter opening section to produce a second which spins the story out of its opening in Warsaw to Rome, and sets it on the way to a climax in the US. From there the story was turned over to thirteen authors – including Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Joseph Finder, S. J. Rozan, and P. J. Parrish – who each wrote a chapter that propelled the story along. Along the way the plot took twists and turns as each author lent his or her own imprint on the tale. Characters were added as the action moved around the world — and the stakes got higher and higher. The book wrapped with Jeff writing the final two chapters bringing The Chopin Manuscript to its explosive conclusion.\r\n\r\nThe plot unfolds like this: Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a priceless, previously-unknown manuscript by Frederic Chopin. Within the notes of this work, which was originally found and hidden by the Nazis during World War II, lies a secret that has left death in its wake – and could kill tens of thousands more. As Middleton races to unlock the mystery of the manuscript, he is accused of murder, pursued by federal agents and targeted by assassins. But the greatest threat comes from a man known only as Faust – a shadowy figure from Middleton’s past.\r\n\r\nThe Chopin Manuscript was the world’s first audio thriller, delivered serially, read beautifully by that great actor Alfred Molina. Readers received a new installment of 2-3 chapters every Tuesday, beginning September 25th. with the final instalment delivered on November 13th. It proved one of the fastest-selling audio titles of 2007.','','','publish','open','open','','6226','','','2011-04-20 16:18:26','2011-04-20 15:18:26','',3390,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6226',24,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6227,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:45','2011-01-27 16:59:45','Blame Jeffery Deaver. This is all his fault. A couple of years ago Jeff came up with the bright idea that a bunch of members at ITW could raise funds to keep the organisation going by writing an audio thriller. You know what that is, don’t you? No. Nor did we. Jeff said, ‘I’ll write chapter one and the closing chapter. You lot just produce the chapters in between. Audible can publish it. And we can get some great actor to read the lines.’\r\n\r\nWe indulged him of course. Jeff’s such a nice guy you have to. So I wrote a second chapter taking Jeff’s start in eastern Europe to Rome. Then a bunch of others — too many to mention here — came in and we wound up with a scary fast-moving thriller called The Chopin Manuscript. That great actor Alfred Molina came in and did a voiceover so astonishing it sent shivers down my spine. Then it went on to win the audio equivalent of an Oscar, Audiobook of the Year. Note that was the audiobook of the year — not a genre thing. Amazing.\r\n\r\nSo Jeff comes back a while later and says, ‘Let’s do it again!’\r\n\r\nWe won a prize. We broke new ground. Most of all we had fun. Who’s going to say no?\r\n\r\nThe result is a sequel to The Chopin Manuscript. It’s called The Copper Bracelet. It’s different. Better. More focused I think — we were really testing our feet the first time round. More scary and hellishly contemporary too, a global conspiracy thriller that is straight out of the headlines and with a compelling mystery at its heart: what is the secret of the Copper Bracelet? And yes Harold Middleton and his team of volunteers return to put their lives on the line to find out.\r\n\r\nOnce again it’s an audio novel available only by download from Audible and iTunes. If you’re in the US head off over to www.audible.com/copper. In the UK go to www.audible.co.uk/copper. There you’ll find the first chapter for free and other freebies including an audio interview in which Jeff, Lee, Jim Fusilli and I discuss the project. You’ll have to register but you won’t need a credit card.\r\n\r\nAs before, Jeff wrote that first chapter, setting us up for a wild ride around the globe. Those who follow him are, in order of appearance, Gayle Lynds, me, Jim Fusilli, John Gilstrap, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, David Corbett, Linda Barnes, Jenny Siler, David Liss, P.J. Parrish, Brett Battles, Lee Child, Jon Land and James Phelan. Once again Alfred Molina narrates. Jim Fusilli held the whole thing together as editor too, and Jeff wraps up the project with a skill that still leaves me breathless.\r\n\r\nIt’s worth pointing out that this is not a collaboration in a conventional sense. We didn’t have plot meetings or storylines. This was a relay race in which the baton was simply passed from one runner to the next, with no one knowing where this would all end up. It’s a great testament to Jim and Jeff that the two of them manage to keep an astonishingly tight rein on such a free-wheeling project. And as always I’m flattered to be part of a fundraiser for the excellent organisation that is ITW.','','','publish','open','open','','6227','','','2011-04-20 16:18:26','2011-04-20 15:18:26','',3390,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6227',25,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6228,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','Since the first Nic Costa title, A Season for the Dead, appeared in 2003 the series has grown a book a year, and spread to some twenty different languages around the world including Japanese, Thai, French, Spanish and Italian. It has won multiple plaudits including, most recently the American Library Association award for Best Mystery of 2008 for the sixth book, The Garden of Evil.\r\n\r\nI never expected any of this, trust me. In fact when I wrote A Season for the Dead I honestly believed my career as a writer might well be over.\r\n\r\nAfter I wrote Lucifer’s Shadow – now rereleased in the UK as The Cemetery of Secrets – I found myself out of contract with my then publisher. Lucifer was the first book I ever set in Italy. I loved writing it, and edited the final draft in a little apartment in Rome, simply because I felt like being in Italy, though not in Venice where it was set.\r\n\r\nI’d visited Rome a couple of times before as a journalist. But on this occasion I was there for a whole week and the place took my breath away. I determined to set the next book there, enrolled at a language school to study Italian and tried, as best I could, to see the city through the eyes of Romans.\r\n\r\nNic Costa came out of knowing what I didn’t want to write: a conventional crime character. In other words someone who was melancholic, alcoholic, middle-aged, dour, divorced…. you get the picture. Instead I wanted someone full of integrity and enthusiasm, young, a little naive, someone who was looking for something. Enter the young agente who’s grown steadily over the years to become the character he is today, now surrounded by a mature and familiar cast of regulars.\r\n\r\nThat was the serendipitous path that led to A Season for the Dead. With my customary sense of great timing I managed to deliver to my then publisher on September 11, 2001. He rejected it quite harshly as ‘unpublishable’. A few months later I was in a new home, the enthusiastic hands of Pan Macmillan, with a new editor, Maria Rejt, who told me what I wanted to hear: this wasn’t a standalone novel at all, it was a new series.\r\n\r\nAnd here we are. Which, for those of you trying to write yourselves, demonstrates two eternal facts about books. First, this can be a very odd business indeed. And second, they don’t grow on trees. You have to go out there and chase them down. Books are about life, and if you don’t experience much of that you’ve got no stories to tell.','','','publish','open','open','','6228','','','2011-04-20 16:18:22','2011-04-20 15:18:22','',0,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6228',1,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6229,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','The Garden of Evil, has won rave responses from the critics, including coveted starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist and won best mystery of 2008 title in the American Library Association’s annual genre awards.\r\n\r\nPW describes the work as ‘this dark jewel of a thriller’. Booklist’s Bill Ott declares, ‘Arturo Pérez-Reverte has long set the gold standard for mixing history, mystery, and modern life into literary stews of mouthwatering flavor and incredible subtlety, but it’s time to agree that Hewson now shares that position—and is on the verge of claiming it outright.’ The ALA awards citations call it, ‘this masterfully crafted puzzler’.\r\n\r\nIn a deserted artist’s studio in the heart of Rome, detectives stumble upon a scene of shocking brutality: two bodies, freshly killed. Looming over them is a painting that bears all the hallmarks of a Caravaggio: a brilliantly coloured canvas depicting a violent tableau of beauty and depravity. This grisly discovery sends Nic Costa on a desperate chase through the streets of his city. The consequences are devastating. And for Nic, the case has only just begun.\r\n\r\nAt the crime scene, detectives find a treasure trove of evidence—from fresh blood to lurid photos of dead prostitutes. For Costa, finding the killer who escaped him is intensely personal. But his prime suspect arrogantly hides in plain sight behind a fortress of money, power, and the law.\r\n\r\nTeaming with an art expert, Costa follows clues hidden in the mysterious Caravaggio canvas. As he moves through a maze of history, he begins to make stunning connections to the present case. And each discovery brings him closer and closer to a secret buried in a priceless work of art, a conspiracy dating back four hundred years—and men who will stop at nothing to protect their own private garden of evil.\r\n\r\nReviews\r\n\r\nPublishers Weekly (starred review)\r\n\r\nAt the outset of this dark jewel of a thriller, Hewson’s sixth to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after The Seventh Sacrament), Costa and his team are just starting to process a crime scene in an artist’s shabby studio, where two corpses lie sprawled before a painting of a rapturous female nude redolent of Caravaggio, when they flush out a hooded gunman. The gunman escapes in the ensuing chase… While Costa is taken off the case, his rule-bending boss finds a way for him to help on the sly, assisting the unusual art expert—young Sister Agata Graziano—called in to investigate whether the canvas could really be a Caravaggio and what light it might shed on the murders. You don’t have to be much of a sleuth to foresee danger for Sister Agata, but that’s about the only predictable element in a plot otherwise as serpentine—and suspense filled—as the ancient Roman byways through which Costa stalks his prey.\r\n\r\nBill Ott of Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association (starred review)\r\n\r\nHewson’s latest Nic Costa thriller opens with a shocker that will have series fans reeling, just as it does the principal players: Rome police detectives Costa and Gianni Peroni and their boss, the brooding Leo Falcone. What follows is another gritty, compelling mix of mean streets and ancient history, as the detectives attempt to unravel an appalling series of murders that seems to connect to an unknown Caravaggio painting depicting a tableau of startling depravity.\r\n\r\nWith the help of lay sister and Caravaggio expert Agata Graziano, the detectives quickly determine that a group of wealthy Roman aristocrats, impervious to the law, are re-creating the violent, orgiastic lifestyle enjoyed centuries earlier by Caravaggio and his circle, who called themselves the “Ekstasists”—and if a few prostitutes die in support of the hedonists’ revels, what of it? As usual, Hewson mixes art history and contemporary crime perfectly, but this time he digs deeper, finding connections between art and life that go to the very heart of humanity’s conflicted cravings for the sensual and the spiritual. And emerging from the complex, masterful plot, its sinews intertwined between past and present, is the towering, tragic figure of Caravaggio, whose still-unsolved murder in Rome in 1606 holds the key to bringing the modern-day Ekstasists to justice.\r\n\r\nArturo Pérez-Reverte has long set the gold standard for mixing history, mystery, and modern life into literary stews of mouthwatering flavor and incredible subtlety, but it’s time to agree that Hewson now shares that position—and is on the verge of claiming it outright.\r\n\r\nBookBrowse’s Kim Kovacs writes…\r\n\r\nI have a rule: I won’t call a book a page-turner unless reading it causes me to miss my bus stop. Engrossed in David Hewson’s latest mystery, The Garden of Evil, I missed my stop not once but twice – and that was before I was halfway through the novel. This one’s a page-turner all right! It’s also a top-notch, high-quality detective procedural that will appeal to readers who enjoy a literary mystery.\r\n\r\nSetting his novel entirely in Rome, Hewson does a wonderful job of recreating the city for his readers, allowing its atmosphere to permeate the book. His readers not only “see” the city with their imagination, they “feel” the cold stones of its streets and buildings and experience the claustrophobia of its alleys as the detectives pursue their suspect.\r\n\r\nAuthors with the ability to create such vivid descriptions of time and place sometimes fall short when it comes to writing action sequences. Such is not the case with Hewson who delivers action that is both riveting and cinematic. What truly draws the reader, though, are the sections of the novel that concentrate on revelation – revelation of clues to solving the crime as well as the illumination of the principals’ characters.\r\n\r\nIn the Richmond Times-Dispatch Jay Strafford writes…\r\n\r\nWhen art imitates life, the result can be powerful. And when it takes inspiration from death, it’s at once mesmerizing and terrifying.\r\n\r\nSuch is the case with David Hewson’s The Garden of Evil (480 pages, Delacorte, $24), the sixth book in the British author’s series featuring Nic Costa, a police detective in Rome, and his colleagues.\r\n\r\nHewson draws his characters well; each book continues their growth and the reader’s affection for them. In The Garden of Evil, a new character, Agata Graziano, a sister in a convent and an art expert, particularly engages the imagination. And Hewson’s imagery is striking — a police car’s “blue light flashed down the alley, like some mutant Christmas decoration newly escaped from the tree.”\r\n\r\nA thought-provoking blend of art history and mystery, The Garden of Evil is primarily a novel about sin — original sin, as well as old sins made new. A chilling tale rendered in evocative prose, it’s Hewson’s latest triumph — and a treat for readers who like their entertainment literate.\r\n\r\nMargaret Cannon, in the Toronto Globe & Mail…\r\n\r\nThe Nic Costa series, set in Rome, is one of my favourites. Hewson sets his stories so firmly in place that it’s possible to go from street to piazza to alley, and almost feel the stones of the walks or touch the ancient Roman bricks. The Garden of Evil is the best book so far in the Costa series, and that’s saying a lot. But Hewson takes his plotting here a giant step further than in the usual cop/chase story.\r\n\r\nPeter Burton in the Daily Express\r\n\r\nThe Garden of Evil is the sixth in the Costa series and is even more gripping than its predecessors. Hewson is a cunning storyteller… What follows is a deadly cat-and-mouse game during which the body count steadily rises and Roman history once again proves to be a vital component in the case. The Garden of Evil is impossible to put down.\r\n\r\nIn Mystery News Harriet Stay writes…\r\n\r\nI have loved all of Hewson’s thrillers or suspence procedurals and this was no exception. It sizzles with grisly murders, well-drawn characters you care about (there were times I wanted to scream or cry), dialogue to envy and all in all a story not to forget.\r\n\r\nAt Bookreporter Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum writes…\r\n\r\nThe Garden of Evil is one of the best literary police procedurals written this season. The breadth and intense accuracy of David Hewson’s research is the palette he uses for the landscape against which (the book) is juxtaposed. With the stroke of his pen, he transports readers to times and places buried in eons of history while seamlessly bringing them back to the present. In each of his books his protagonist, Nic Costa, has slowly shed his picaresque role and is now a man with a real sense of self. No longer the naïve beat cop, he has earned his stripes as a detective, which adds verisimilitude to the way he ferrets out the clues that he needs to solve the murders in this labyrinthine drama.\r\n\r\nThose who are already fans will not want to miss The Garden of Evil. And new readers will find themselves enchanted by Hewson’s storytelling abilities.','','','publish','open','open','','6229','','','2011-04-20 16:18:23','2011-04-20 15:18:23','',3302,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6229',5,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6230,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','In a dilapidated glass furnace off the island of Murano the fire races out of control. Two people are dead, and for Leo Falcone, exiled to Venice, with Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni, the question is whether he’s dealing with one murderer or two.\r\n\r\nFor Costa, life in Venice is more perplexing on other fronts too. His relationship with Emily Deacon is deepening, and she is missing the law enforcement work she’s abandoned for a different, quieter career. Slowly, the sluggish world of the lagoon begins to enfold the Romans in its sinister grip, as they try to untangle the complex family ties of the tragic Arcangeli family on a private island falling into ruin.\r\n\r\nThe Lizard’s Bite is in part a companion piece to the earlier standalone novel, The Cemetery of Secrets, bringing several characters from that story into the tale of murder, betrayal and deceit which Costa and his colleagues must unpick in the heady, close heights of the Venetian summer.\r\n\r\nThe Venetian police turn to the Romans to wrap it up quickly and cleanly, in time for the English tycoon, Hugo Massiter, to complete his purchase of the island. To Falcone, this seems a small matter, a domestic murder of little more than intellectual interest. But as the summer heat takes hold, and the Romans’ investigations begin to grate with a local force more interested in tidy solutions than awkward questions, the island’s spell begins to cast a wider net.\r\n\r\nReviews\r\n\r\nPublishers Weekly starred review\r\n\r\nBritish author Hewson’s wonderfully complex and finely paced fourth crime novel (after 2005’sThe Sacred Cut) to feature Roman detective Nic Costa and his unconventional partner, Gianni Peroni, finds the pair exiled to Venice, where they look into the case of glassmaker Uriel Arcangelo, who apparently killed his wife, Bella, then committed suicide. Instead of coming to the foreordained conclusion higher authority demands, Costa and Peroni determine, “We’re no longer trying to understand the means Uriel Arcangelo used to kill his wife. But why, how and with whom the late Bella appears to have conspired to kill him.” An urbane and wealthy Englishman who wants to buy the Isolo degli Arcangeli glassworks becomes an important suspect. Hewson is particularly strong on characterization, revealing each personality subtly and naturally as he or she reacts to the intricate plot developments. Newcomers as well as series fans will be enthralled.\r\n\r\nBookreporter, Joe Hartlaub\r\n\r\nDavid Hewson may well be the finest mystery writer of our time. In my humble opinion, he’s also one of our best contemporary writers, period. There are elements of Agatha Christie, Graham Greene and William Shakespeare in his work, but when you sit down and crack the spine of A SEASON OF THE DEAD or THE VILLA OF MYSTERIES, what you have is all and uniquely Hewson.Hewson peppers THE LIZARD’S BITE with a number of interesting – and fascinating – factoids about places and subjects that compel the reader to find out more on their own. But this common thread (among others) through Hewson’s novels is not performed by rote. Think instead of a tightrope walker who performs his work daily for the same audience but introduces a new, and jeopardous, element every time. That’s a Hewson novel. Very highly recommended.\r\n\r\nMargaret Cannon, Toronto Globe and Mail\r\n\r\nIf you haven’t already discovered this brilliant series featuring Nic Costa and a cast of Roman detectives, you have a treat in store. The Lizard’s Bite is the fourth book in the set and, like the other three, it is superb. Hewson likes to combine history, art and detection, and he delivers them all with different focuses for different books. The Lizard’s Bite is about glass. Followers know that Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni have been exiled from Rome and sent to Venice. Only a Roman would find that a trial. Leo Falcone, meanwhile, is assigned to the Carabinieri’s art-theft division. Everyone converges on the Veneto in summer, a blistering season of sirocco winds and dry, burning heat. In Murano, the glassmakers spin the exquisite spirals and colours that have been the trademark of Venetian glass for centuries.One stifling night, Uriel Arcangelo tends the family furnace. His job is to have the molten glass ready for the glassblowers in the morning. But more than glass is burning in the Arcangelo furnaces, and the terrors of the night turn into death and destruction, exposing a secret that can destroy the entire family. Hewson manages to tuck in plenty of art secrets and thrills, and some nods to the fad for Da Vinci Code-style mysteries. This is another great novel by a fine author.\r\n\r\nThe Literary Review\r\n\r\nHewson’s very enjoyable Italian mysteries are cleverly worked out and sharply written, and his take on the secretive city is much more uncomfortable and sinister than Leon’s (Donna Leon’s Through a Glass, Darkly, which is reviewed previously). In his hero’s eyes it is like ‘a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go’.\r\n\r\nNew York Times\r\n\r\nThe mises-en-scene of David Hewson’s elaborate Italian-based novels are always so flamboyantly operatic that I keep expecting the principals to break out in song…. told with dashing style, in atmospheric set pieces that capture the theatrical grandeur of Venice and the pockets of miserable squalor behind its splendid facade.\r\n\r\nBoston Globe\r\n\r\nThis complex novel, a journey to hell and back, is leavened with food and humor and propelled by suspense and action. The atmospherics are extraordinary — Hewson does Venice every bit as well as Tony Hillerman does New Mexico. The ending is particularly satisfying, like watching a multistage finale to a spectacular fireworks display.\r\n\r\nDenver Post\r\n\r\nLayered into the story are some complex relationships among members of the withdrawn and insular Arcangelo family, clinging to their ancient art in a world overrun by tourists looking for cheap trinkets, as well as a stalled love affair between Costa and former FBI agent Emily Deacon. And it is complicated further by a rich, powerful and amoral Englishman (from an earlier non-series book, Lucifer’s Shadow), who holds the key to the whole mystery but can’t be touched by the Venetian police. Venice itself, a “beautiful graveyard of a city,” as one of the characters calls it, is always the heart and soul of this rich, complex and thoroughly bewitching book.\r\n\r\nToronto Sun\r\n\r\nThis fourth book in David Hewson’s original series… again features Roman detective Nic Costa and his colleagues. On a tiny island near Murano, the glass furnace of the Arcangeli family is dangerously overheating. Uriel Arcangelo is killed by a savage fire, which almost consumes the furnace. His death is deemed an accident. But when his wife’s body is found, the Roman detectives are asked to conduct their own investigation in time for English tycoon Hugo Massiter to finish buying the Arcangeli island.Massiter is on his way to becoming a modern-day Doge in Venice, in terms of power and influence, and although the detectives suspect he is involved in the deaths at the glass factory, he seems untouchable. The densely plotted story needs to be carefully followed, but the drama and characters make it an absorbing read.','The Lizard\'s Bite','','publish','open','open','','the-lizards-bite-3','','','2011-04-20 16:18:23','2011-04-20 15:18:23','',3302,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6230',7,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6231,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:44','2011-01-27 16:59:44','Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then one sunny day in July his wife, Miriam, and their young son, Ricky, were savagely beaten to death. Bierce was convicted of the murder of his family. Languishing on Death Row twenty-three years later, he still has no memory of the incident.\r\n\r\nWith his execution only seconds away, he is suddenly, inexplicably, released. But the world has moved on without him and the city he knew has become a strange and dangerous place.\r\n\r\nReturning to the only home he knows, Bierce meets Alice Loong – a tough, half Chinese woman who can guide him through the confusing new world of the twenty-first century. But it soon becomes clear that Alice is hiding dark secrets of her own.\r\n\r\nAfter the horrifying discovery of a corpse nailed to a post outside Bierce’s house, the pair go on the run, pursued by dangerous enemies. Bierce now knows for certain that he was released to be the pawn in some vicious game he doesn’t understand. He knows, too, that he still doesn’t remember what happened the night his wife and son died. And that, perhaps, he is not as innocent as he’d like to think.\r\n\r\nThe Promised Land was new territory for me, a first person tale that is compelling sequential in nature, an experiment in narrative that is half dream, half nightmare, begging to be read in a single sitting.\r\n\r\nIt’s a story about feeling old, lost and frightened. And like the Costa series, it’s fundamentally a story about a human being trying to find his way home.\r\n\r\n\r\n','','','publish','open','open','','6231','','','2011-04-20 16:18:25','2011-04-20 15:18:25','',3320,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6231',19,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6232,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','It’s approaching Christmas in Rome and snow is falling in a way that only happens every twenty or thirty years. The city is soon paralysed by an unseasonal icy grip, and in the dark corners of the Pantheon a grim and mysterious story begins to unfold.\r\n\r\nNic Costa and his partner Gianni Peroni are called to reports of an intruder. Instead they find a woman’s naked body, scarred in a geometric pattern. Almost immediately they are met by a team from the FBI determined to take over an investigation into what they claim is a killer murdering American tourists around the world, in ways which link back to the mystical structure of the Pantheon itself.\r\n\r\nBut one agent, Emily Deacon, has a different story to tell, one that has a tragic personal dimension. Through her and an elusive Iraqi girl Laila, only witness to the death in the Pantheon, Nic Costa is pulled relentlessly into the world of the Iraq war and the shadowy secret agents whose job was to penetrate the regime of Saddam Hussein before the armed forces attacked.\r\n\r\nSoon he is aware that there is a conspiracy at the heart of these deaths that runs back to Washington, and the past of Emily Deacon’s dead father, a tangle of connections he has to unravel, even if it comes at a considerable personal and professional cost.\r\n\r\nA madman is loose in the frozen winter landscape of Rome, and as Costa soon realises, he is one the American agents know only too well.\r\n\r\nReviews\r\n\r\nThe third novel in the Nic Costa series was made one of 2006’s Top 10 crime novels by Booklist, the influential magazine of the American Library Association. Booklist’s Bill Ott describes the book as ‘ a corruption-drenched Italian procedural that blends historical detail with contemporary cynicism’, and adds, All the historical detail gives the proceedings a tasty complexity comparable to Pérez-Reverte, but what really makes the novel work is the interplay between the anti-establishment Roman cops.’\r\n\r\nP.G. Koth of the Houston Chronicle comments…\r\n\r\nFor all the high-stakes action, in which a serial killer with possible ties to the black ops of U.S. intelligence wreaks havoc in snowbound Rome, it is the compelling character of… three men that drives the book. The fiercely principled trio, rare enough in the ranks of Rome police, are especially distinct in comparison to the arrogant FBI team, partnered with Italy’s own intelligence ‘ghosts,’ that takes control of the investigation of a murdered woman Costa and Peroni find inside the Pantheon.\r\n\r\nShe is buried in snow beneath the oculus: ‘a steady swirling stream … , pirouetting around itself with the perfect, precise symmetry of a strand of human DNA, [falling] in the dead center of the room.’ Similarly fine passages further describing the snowstorm that has cloaked the city in silence punctuate the plot, which hinges on a homeless Iraqi girl who is a compulsive pickpocket, and inexperienced FBI agent Emily Deacon, who also has a personal stake in the case.\r\n\r\nThe novel’s contrast between the gray areas that spies negotiate and the clear imperatives of the law is stark. Peeling away the layers that obfuscate those imperatives becomes a mesmerizing experience.\r\n\r\nJoe Hartlaub, of Bookreporter, writes…\r\n\r\nHewson, perhaps more than any other contemporary author, has combined a sense of grand concept – so popular these days – with believable, sympathetic characters who one cares about. Hewson is nothing short of marvelous, as always, mixing in legitimate conclusions with red herrings so that readers and characters both engagingly stumble along to conclusions that may or may not be correct.\r\n\r\nAs entertaining as this is, however, nothing can match Hewson’s ability to capture the flavor of Rome – a heady stew composed of its people, culture and geography in equal parts – so that what we ultimately are favored with is a mystery steeped in a culture that is contemporaneously familiar and exotic.\r\n\r\nHank Wagner in Mystery Scene…\r\n\r\nA happy blend of police procedural and international thriller, Hewson’s third Nic Costa novel finds the trinity of Costa, Peroni and their irascible chief Leo Falcone in fine form, fearlessly grappling with criminals, bureaucracies, their significant others, and the American intellligence community in the pursuit of the truth. Providing laughter and thrillers in equal amounts, Hewson makes it look easy.\r\n\r\nThe Sacred Cut is totally compelling, one of those rare thrillers which emphasis character over action, although Hewson acquits himself admirably in that department as well. It’s the attention Hewson lavishes on his entire cast that keeps readers; interest piqued; all the rest, as they say, is gravy.\r\n\r\nMarilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review writes…\r\n\r\nHewson can dress a stage with operatic panache, and here his mise-en-scène is spectacular; the Pantheon, its ancient dome open to ‘a steady, swirling stream of snow, pirouetting around itself with the perfect, precise symmetry of a strand of human DNA’ and enveloping a mutilated body in a funnel of ice. (The) Nic Costa novels, set mainly in Rome and featuring a personable young homicide detective, are built with pleasing symmetry. In the previous books… the settings range from the Vatican library to an archaeological site at Ostia Antica, and the reference points include a Caravaggio painting and ancient Bacchanalian rituals. The killings, despite their savagery, have theatrical flair and are put to vivid use in fascinating lectures on Italian art and history.\r\n\r\nPublishers Weekly\r\n\r\nHewson’s solid writing and multidimensional characters command attention from start to finish of this smart, literate thriller.\r\n\r\nKirkus Reviews\r\n\r\nHewson’s literate prose, bolstered by local color and historical tidbits, makes for top-flight entertainment.\r\n\r\nMargaret Cannon of the Globe and Mail, Toronto, says…\r\n\r\nThis is the third novel in this Roman cop series, and I’m hooked. I love the way Hewson combines 4,000 years of Roman history with 21st-century police plots. I love the Ed McBain style, with recurring characters who play different roles in each book. Most of all, I love the atmosphere and the beautifully crafted plots.','','','publish','open','open','','6232','','','2011-04-20 16:18:23','2011-04-20 15:18:23','',3302,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6232',8,'nav_menu_item','',0),(6233,1,'2011-01-27 16:59:43','2011-01-27 16:59:43','It begins on one of Rome’s least-known hills, the Aventino, in the public piazza fronting the mansion of the Knights of Malta. There a curious keyhole to the knights’ estate reveals an astonishing view, a direct line across the Tiber to the dome of St. Peters in the distance. \r\n\r\nFor seven-year-old Alessio Bramante the act of peeking through the keyhole on his way to school each day is a ritual, a way of establishing a bond with his difficult, distant father, one of Rome’s most famous archaeologists, Giorgio Bramante. Then one day, after an unexpected visit to one of Giorgio’s underground excavations, Alessio disappears. A group of students who had slipped into the site, an ancient Mithraic temple, attract the blame. A tragedy occurs. Alessio is never found, and it’s his father who goes to jail.\r\n\r\nFourteen years later, in an arcane shrine by the Tiber known as the Little Museum of Purgatory, a tee-shirt belonging to Bramante’s son begins to show fresh bloodstains. No one can understand how the marks have appeared behind the glass.\r\n\r\nSoon it becomes apparent that the newly-released Giorgio Bramante is bent upon a vicious and terrifying revenge on all those he blames for the loss of his son, and numbers Inspector Leo Falcone, a member of the original investigating team, among his targets. In the depths of the labyrinth he knows better than any man, a distraught father seeks his vengeance against those he hates.\r\n\r\nNic Costa, watching Falcone move relentlessly into the man’s deadly grip, realises the answer to the deadly present must lie in solving a cold case that, like the forgotten Alessio Bramante, has long been regarded as dead and buried for good.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_3468\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"180\" caption=\"Saul Reichlin\"][/caption]\r\n\r\nAudio crime book of the year\r\nIn 2008 The Seventh Sacrament won the new Audible Sounds of Crime prize for the unabridged crime audiobook of the year. The award, which was based on votes from readers, was announced at the Bristol CrimeFest conference.\r\n\r\nI’m really honoured and flattered to get such a plaudit for the work, and delighted too that I quite rightly share it with Saul Reichlin, right, the series narrator, whose astonishing performance of the books is surely one of the main reasons for their popularity in audio.\r\n\r\nReviews\r\n\r\nBooklist, the American Library Association’s influential magazine…\r\n\r\nHewson’s uncompromising trio of antiestablishment Roman cops—Nic Costa, Gianni Peroni, and their boss, Leo Falcone—are back in the Eternal City and up to their necks in another vat of hot water. As with the previous four entries in this always-captivating series, the crime on the front burner—a dead body discovered in a Roman church—is merely the entrée point to a case with tentacles extending deep into ancient history…Hewson keeps his readers securely tethered to a narrative lifeline; like Theseus on the trail of the minotaur, we follow the plot around countless blind corners but never lose our way out of the maze. The interplay between Hewson’s three cops—and between them and the especially rich supporting cast—lift this novel far above the plot-driven Da Vinci Code and its many imitators. A superb mix of history, mystery, and humanity.\r\n\r\nAmazon’s top reviewer Harriet Klausner writes…\r\n\r\nCosta’s last outing (The Lizard’s Bite) was one of the top police procedurals of 2006; The Seventh Sacrament will prove likewise in 2007. The story line is fast-paced while it smoothly moves back and forth between the present and the past. The investigation is top rate filled with twists and turns while Leo brings a human element with his feelings of inadequacy and guilt. Fans will appreciate David Hewson’s superior Roman adventure.\r\n\r\nI Love A Mystery’s Bob Walch declares…\r\n\r\nA clever and utterly surprising ending will stun even the most jaded reader. If you are one of those individuals who believe there are very few writers left who can make you sit up and applaud, be forewarned. You’ll be putting your hands together in appreciation of David Hewson!\r\n\r\nPublisher’s Weekly says…\r\n\r\nThe intricate fifth thriller from British author Hewson to feature Roman detective Nic Costa (after 2006’s The Lizard’s Bite) artfully weaves several points-of-view as it shifts between past and present. Fourteen years after seven-year-old Alessio Bramante, the son of an eminent archeology professor, disappeared underneath Rome’s ancient Circus Maximus, someone seeking revenge attacks Costa’s colleague, Insp. Leo Falcone, who worked on the unsolved case of the missing boy. Falcone and Costa start asking questions that should have been asked during the original bungled investigation. The subterranean labyrinths just may hold the answers to a mystery whose poignant resolution few readers will anticipate.\r\n\r\nFrom The Times Literary Supplement…\r\n\r\nThere are hints of Dan Brown here, but David Hewson handles the material intelligently and plot and characterization remain the novel’s strengths. Bramante, the anti-hero, has some of the hall marks of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter though without the misplaced comedy. He is a monstrous creation with a terrifying sexual appetite matched only by his murderous cruelty. The policemen, from the new commissario down to the old sergeant on the front desk, are lively and well drawn, as are the three main characters, Costa, Peroni and Falcone, and their love interests.\r\n\r\nThe Calgary Herald says…\r\n\r\nBeneath the Vespa-crowded streets of Rome, there are other, much older incarnations of the Eternal City. These older Romes are littered with clues to a mysterious pagan past, clues that can be found in the rubble of middens, roads and religious altars. It is this hidden Rome that fascinates David Hewson. Here, in his fifth book featuring his misfit cops Leo Falcone, Gianni Peroni and Nic Costa, he explores both the secrets that haunt old Rome and the terrible secrets that haunt families. Hewson’s work has been compared to that of Donna Leon and Dan Brown, and it will certainly appeal to fans of both writers. His stories are fresh, original, brightly written and very smart, and his latest book is his best so far. This is definitely among this spring’s must-read crime fictions.\r\n\r\nThe York Press…\r\n\r\nThe Seventh Sacrament is Yorkshire-born David Hewson’s fifth mystery set in Italy featuring detectives Nic Costa and Gianna Peroni. Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, the detectives set about rebuilding their lives. But the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a T-shirt in a local museum soon has the old team back in action again, and it’s not long before they are embroiled in a mystery involving both the ancient cult of Mithras and a sinister ossuary, The House of Bones. If you’re a fan of Dan “Da Vinci Code” Brown you’ll love this.\r\n\r\nReviewing The Evidence …\r\n\r\nDavid Hewson can really evoke an Italian atmosphere well – whether the modern city or the frightening underground city. The twists of the story are cleverly done – even when the situation seems obvious he can produce a strange response that can turn the tale on its head. The climax is absolutely shattering.\r\n\r\nThe Reading Post says…\r\n\r\nHewson is a talented writer with the gift of creating a good, old-fashioned page-turning thriller. His characters shine with real depth and conviction and the plot is breathtakingly imaginative. A superb read for crime fans who like their mysteries both ancient and modern.\r\n\r\nWoman magazine (circulation 536,364, which has made the title a Book Club choice)\r\n\r\nA thrilling tale…with the author’s captivating descriptions of long-forgotten passageways and temples, and his skill in creating a sinister undertone keeping you, hooked from the off. A highly dramatic tale for those who like a sprinkling of culture with their crime thriller.\r\n\r\nChoice magazine\r\n\r\nThis gripping novel incorporates modern Rome, mysterious happenings in churches and the Roman cult of Mithras. David Hewson has a superb sense of pace and place, his characters feel real, and he writes a page-turner detective story like no other.\r\n\r\nThe Mystery and Thriller Club (UK) magazine says…\r\n\r\nThe fifth Nic Costa and Gianna Peroni mystery is a devilishly compelling brew of conspiracy, vengeance and murder. Brilliantly entertaining and deftly written, The Seventh Sacrament is a sophisticated and original thriller that cements David Hewson’s burgeoning reputation as one of crime writing’s most exciting talents.\r\n\r\n\r\n','','','publish','open','open','','6233','','','2011-04-20 16:18:23','2011-04-20 15:18:23','',3302,'http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//?p=6233',6,'nav_menu_item','',0),