false 2869953 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2869953 8 2896108 3 10 2008 Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7) total:33|5:6|4:11|3:14|2:0|1:2| 33 118 75 10 21678 3.53 944 211 52682990 2221088 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 24 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 0 0 false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 14:36:36 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 14:37:18 -0700 2009
I’m glad because now I’ve found a new author, and sorry because, darn it, I should’ve been reading David Hew...more...]]> 50560997 900340 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.29 7 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 4 0 false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:27:59 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 06:19:15 -0700 2009
This is the seventh installment of the Nic Costa series, and it's a bizarre one. Then again, if these Roman cops ever solved anything not bizarre, the books wouldn't be half as good as they ar...more...]]> 51800531 2059576 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 3 0 true Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 07:35:19 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 07:31:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 67512975 2541722 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 1 0 false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 12:28:04 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 13:36:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 76318044 2443828 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 3 0 false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 14:18:25 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 14:21:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 63250934 2516990 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 0 0 false Mon Jul 13 04:21:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 04:22:28 -0700 2009 68701256 2617370 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 5 0 false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 11:02:28 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 11:08:23 -0700 2009 57310168 2065514 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 1 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon May 25 18:22:07 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 16:47:42 -0700 2009 1/2 52433757 1289156 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 3 0 false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 17:42:33 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 17:43:22 -0700 2009 39464975 664484 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 3 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 06 14:32:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 05 22:38:56 -0700 2009 Inferno, but the twists and the resolution all revolve around Hitchcock's Vertigo.
The action moves from Italy to San Franci...more...]]> 81812033 3012223 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Dec 22 18:34:17 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 22 18:34:17 -0800 2009 81588818 2843492 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 0 0 false Sun Dec 20 14:34:24 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 20 14:34:24 -0800 2009 80350492 2995768 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Dec 08 17:15:34 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 17:15:34 -0800 2009 79036442 1152479 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 3 0 false Wed Dec 09 16:24:55 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 06:14:08 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 16:24:55 -0800 2009 78903942 2978158 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 4 0 false Tue Nov 24 17:52:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 17:52:47 -0800 2009 78069045 2940535 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 0 0 false Tue Nov 17 07:21:20 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 07:21:20 -0800 2009 77653835 1302210 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 3 0 false Fri Nov 13 10:04:44 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 10:04:44 -0800 2009 75038660 80567 5974241 0385341482 9780385341486 3 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-m-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/59/241/5974241-s-1255898952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974241.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at the Villa Borghese as the paparazzi thronged among them. But within moments the event was in chaos. A man was dead. The film’s star was missing—and a priceless relic had vanished. In David Hewson’s masterful new novel of suspense, Detective Nic Costa, numb from the recent death of his wife, finds himself and his fellow detectives drawn into a strange and terrifying limbo—the first of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.

While Dante had Beatrice as his guide, Nic Costa has an enigmatic beauty of his own: a bored American film actress named Maggie Flavier who decides that Costa, and no one else, is suited for the job of protecting her from the danger surrounding the film. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay. Fortunately his fellow detectives are under no such spell. Charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, they are also joining the hunt for a killer who has struck twice again, leaving behind a tableau of clues that range from Dante’s deadly cycle of numbers to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Now, with Maggie herself in danger, Nic must throw off the fog of wonder and infatuation he feels in the presence of this beautiful woman in all her guises. But it may already be too late. As evidence points to connections deep within the Italian Mafia, and the Roman policemen do battle with a celluloid culture they cannot quite comprehend, a killer’s chilling plot is closing in around them—guided by a poet’s medieval vision of sin and punishment, planned with a modern genius for revenge….]]> 2008 3 0 false Mon Oct 19 12:28:32 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 12:28:32 -0700 2009 73740861 1945300 2869953 0230529356 9780230529359 7 <![CDATA[Dante's Numbers (Nic Costa, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2869953.Dante_s_Numbers 3.58 33 Dante's Numbers is the seventh novel in David Hewson's Italian-set crime sequence. His protagonist is 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. A selection of writers from England and America have elected to locate their books in Italy, and Hewson is among the most accomplished of such literary travellers.

Dante's Numbers is a particularly winning outing for Nic Costa. A death mask of the great Italian writer Dante is to be displayed to tie in with the premiere of a new film based on the poet's classic Inferno. But when the time arrives for the display, a macabre death mask of Allen Prime, the film's star, is discovered to have been substituted for the invaluable original. Shortly after, the leading lady, Maggie Flavier, is menaced before her assailant is shot. Is a demented fan of Dante behind the mayhem? The caribinieri think so - but (as usual) Nic Costa refuses to take the establishment line, and he travels to the film's next showing in San Francisco. His task: recover the mask - and prevent more deaths.

Hewson fans will be in no doubt as to the effortless level of storytelling acumen on offer here - the only mystery is why Hewson's books (popular though they are) aren't yet as celebrated as many a less accomplished series. --Barry Forshaw

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