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A Season For The Dead (Nic Costa #1)

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In a hushed Vatican Reading Room, the scene is shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with a gruesome calling card from their killer.

Detective Nic Costa is one of the first on the scene. A cop who barely looks his twenty-seven years, Nic soon meets a woman who will d...more

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Published December 28th 2004 by Dell (first published January 1st 2003)

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Aug 12, 2010 Kelly rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: regrets

It's rare that I neglect to finish a book. I usually do plenty of homework first, choosing books that are highly recommended and/or have subject matter of interest to me.

For this reason, my star-ratings are usually at least a three. I enjoy most of what I read because I'm selective about what I do read.

Perhaps I chose too quickly with this one. I assumed that the Vatican Archives setting would give way to a dense, literary mystery of the Donna Tartt or Ruiz Zafon variety.

Instead, I was treated...more

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Apr 07, 2009 Stephen rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Italian mystery fans; puzzles

I read this book first and found it compelling from beginning to end. The use of Rome is far more than backdrop, it is part of the story itself. There are some horrors in this book, and they keep you on the edge of your seat. I love the Nic Costa series.

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Jan 13, 2009 bookczuk rated it 3 of 5 stars

I first read this author's book called Lucifer's Shadow, which I thought was marvelous. I then snapped up a little mystery of his (something with "Villa in it-- I think it was Villa of Mysteries, which was okay, but not great. So, when I was able to catch this book, I thought I'd see how it stacked up, great like the first or just okay, like the second. I'd put this somewhere between the two, a good, but not fabulous mystery. I got a little impatient with it all, but kept reading to make sure my...more

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Dec 22, 2008 Angela rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I picked up David Hewson's A Season for the Dead on impulse while going through the Mystery/Suspense section at Third Place. I liked what was on the blurb, and I thought it would promise me a fairly complex kind of tale. The book did deliver that, though I wound up feeling kind of ambivalent about it by the end. Many of the things I like about the book are not consistently handled all the way through it--and moreover, the actual root of the mystery that drove the plot turned out to be a bit too...more I picked up David Hewson's A Season for the Dead on impulse while going through the Mystery/Suspense section at Third Place. I liked what was on the blurb, and I thought it would promise me a fairly complex kind of tale. The book did deliver that, though I wound up feeling kind of ambivalent about it by the end. Many of the things I like about the book are not consistently handled all the way through it--and moreover, the actual root of the mystery that drove the plot turned out to be a bit too lurid for my tastes. Also, while the mystery was actually solved, the resolution of it turned out to be destructive for the hero--and I didn't care for that at all. He gets no happy ending. He loses the girl. His father dies. He winds up with a crippling injury and sinks into drink and depression, and the only ray of light is that his boss comes to shoehorn him back into the cop job he quit earlier in the book, by way of trying to keep him from being a totally lost cause.

First, some of the things I liked about the book. Hewson's writing was flowingly descriptive in a way that appealed to me, and once or twice he threw forth a sentence that really rang. So I'll give him props for that. And I liked that the book, while being a cop/murder story, was set somewhere else besides the United States--which rang through pretty well for me just in little details of things like how the characters interacted with one another and the overall ambience of the setting. His hero, Nic Costa, came across as refreshingly different in many ways as well--not your typical handsome rugged cop type that you'd see in a suspense novel written by most American authors. He is described as very slender, almost adolescent in appearance even though he is twenty-seven, and during one of the best bits of the book where he puts on the female lead's raincoat and sprints off across the city to distract reporters from her door (one of the few bright funny bits in an otherwise pretty grim plot), he can be mistaken for a woman from a distance.

And now, the "on the other hand" portion of this review. While Hewson's writing did mostly appeal to me, he had a habit of cramming paragraph after paragraph of backstory in between various current events, which threw off the pacing for me. This was mostly a problem with his heroine Sara and with the villains Denney and Fosse oddly enough, the backstory bits for Nic flowed better into the story as a whole.

The plot, as I mentioned above, turned out a bit too lurid for my tastes at the end. We find out that Sara is really not only the daughter of the older villain, Denney, but that she is also the secret twin sister of the younger psycho one, Fosse. We also learn that what drove Fosse over the edge was that Denney--a cardinal in the Vatican who has gotten himself in serious political trouble--was leaning on Sara to give out sexual favors to assorted persons in an attempt to get himself out of the jam he's in. There's a lot of angst on Nic's part about why Sara would take on so many lovers, and after a while it got a little bit repetitive. So did the "I'm angsting about your troubled past but I'm not actually going to TELL YOU that even though I really like you" behavior from Nic.

And lastly, there was the not-a-happy-ending. Fosse is killed, but Denney gets away and eludes justice. Sara disappears with him, so Nic doesn't even get the consolation of being able to be with her at the end. Moreover, Nic suffers a crippling injury in the final confrontation--and in the epilogue we see him sunk into drink and depression after his father's funeral, being generally snarly and surly and unlikeable as his boss shows up to try to make him stop being Self Pity Boy and drag him back onto the job.

And that left a bad taste in my mouth. I mean, in the real world, if these sorts of events had happened, I could totally buy what happened to poor Nic.

Doesn't mean I want to read about it. And I'm not sure yet whether I got drawn enough into the character to want to go buy the next book about him and see if he rallies from this story's dark ending.(less)

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Mar 18, 2013 Leah rated it 4 of 5 stars

When in Rome…

It’s always a great pleasure to come across a well-written, intelligent crime book and to know that it’s only the first of a series.

Young detective Nic Costa is first on the scene when a man is shot dead by Vatican security guards. Had he been about to shoot himself or murder his ex-lover, historian Sara Farnese? Nic is drawn into a complex plot involving banking, corruption, Vatican politics…and a lot of increasingly gruesome murders. There is a further complication for Nic when...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Elizabeth rated it 2 of 5 stars

When I downloaded this book, I was hoping for a thriller with some brain candy thrown in, especially because one of the main characters is initially billed as a scholar of early Christianity. Unfortunately, the actual mystery has nothing to do with cool stuff like that, and the professor character is almost immediately turned into a high-class hooker. (Seriously.) The plot ended up doing nothing for me, and I was disappointed because I expected something smarter and more interesting—especially w...more

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Feb 13, 2013 Trisha rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008-read, thriller

Het verhaal:
Een beginnende agent in Rome stuit door stom toeval op een seriemoordenaar. De 1e moord wordt gepleegd in het Vaticaan. De politie van Rome mag zich er niet mee bemoeien. Nic Costa, oudgediende politieagent, bemoeit zich echter wel met de zaak in het Vaticaan en stuit op het feit dat een historicus meer met de moorden te maken heeft dan Nic dacht. Maar het Vaticaan houdt zich achter de muren verboren en vertelt niets.

Een goed verhaal, wat spanning oproept. Je merkt goed dat er tegen...more

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Aug 08, 2011 Linda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a book that should be read with very few interruptions. I read it in spurts and lost some of the impact.
However, it did grab my attention and half way through I really didn't want to stop reading. There are a lot of gross death scenes so, if you don't like visualizing bloody, bazaar homicides don't read this book. There are unexpected surprises near the end.

A SEASON FOR THE DEAD is the first in a series of Italian crime thrillers set in Rome featuring Nic Costa as the protagonist. Costa...more

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May 16, 2010 John rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is the first of a series. My sister in England sent the entire series to me and suggested I read them so, being the good brother that I am, I started with #1 in the series.

Now that I have finished this first book, I can tell you I should have paid more attention to the first 200 pages. As art (paintings) is not necessarily my thing, my mind wandered as i started reading "A Season for the Dead". BIG mistake! If you choose to read this book, you should make yourself focus from the very b...more

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Aug 11, 2012 Jan Derksen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

...more

In Rome wordt in korte tijd een aantal moorden gepleegd die allemaal een gelijkenis vertonen met het Martelaarschap van de Heiligen, een serie schilderijen van de zestiende-eeuwse kunstenaar Caravaggio. Rechercheur Nic Costa wordt op de zaak gezet, en zijn inspanningen om het patroon van leugens, bedrog en verraad te doorgronden, voeren hem naar het binnenste van het Vaticaan, alwaar een bankschandaal een strijd heeft ontketend onder de kardinalen.

Over de dwarsligger®
De dwarsligger® is een compleet boek in een handzaam formaat. Een boek dat past in een handtas en zelfs in je broekzak of binnenzak. Een boek dat je overal en op elk moment kunt lezen. Met zijn kleine formaat " 12 bij 8 centimeter " en lichte gewicht " gemiddeld nog geen 145 gram " is de dwarsligger® met een hand vast te houden en dus gemakkelijk te lezen.

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NBD|Biblion recensie

Deel van een serie in Rome spelende thrillers rond de jonge Italiaanse politieman Nic Costa. Het verhaal hakt er al gelijk goed in: de jonge universitaire docente Sara Farnese (specialiteit: vroege christendom), aan het werk in de Vaticaanse bibliotheek, wordt opgeschrikt als een collega van de universiteit, verward, met een pistool in de hand, een bloederige mensenhuid op haar bureau deponeert en luid roept 'Het bloed van de martelaren is het zaad van de kerk!' Even later wordt hij door de toegesnelde Zwitserse Garde doodgeschoten. In een naburige kerk worden nog twee lijken gevonden. Rechercheur Nic Costa krijgt de zaak in onderzoek, er volgen nog meer bloederige moorden en de sporen wijzen naar het Vaticaan, dat niet erg meewerkt, en naar schilderijen van martelaren van de zestiende-eeuwse kunstenaar Caravaggio. De invloed van Dan Brown is duidelijk, en ook het Vaticaan komt er niet goed af. Een goed geschreven, mooi opgebouwde, spannende sfeervolle thriller, met de jonge Nic Costa als veelbelovende, sympathieke held. Uitgave in zakformaat op dundrukpapier als zogenoemde 'dwarsligger'; de regels lopen evenwijdig met de rug, zodat de lezer het boek een kwartslag moet keren en de vouw van de rug zich horizontaal halverwege de bladspiegel bevindt. Kleine druk.

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Mar 13, 2009 Writerlibrarian rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: march-pile, mystery, read2009

Sold as a thriller as good as Da Vinci Code, I was weary of it. I hate the Da Vinci Code but I had come across reviews that were negative because it wasn't anything like the Da Vinci Code except for the Vatican and there's a painter involved in it aspect.

The plot has a lot to offer. A fallen cardinal involved in very shady financial transactions, a serial killer with an obsession with martyrs, a young academic with a sulfuric past and two police detectives a burnout older man and a younger cop...more

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Dec 10, 2011 F.R. rated it 3 of 5 stars

I’ve not read ‘The Da Vinci Code’, but given its immense success, I suppose that we can all expect lots of other thrillers to emerge which lean on strange and dodgy dealings in the Vatican. Not that this is a bad book, it’s entertaining as long as you don’t think about it too much, and certainly feels more of a book – and not a cinema script in waiting – than some of its ilk. If and when they adapt this one for the cinema (or if the BBC gets another Wallander sized hole in its schedule) then it...more

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Feb 10, 2012 Sheila Beaumont rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-fiction, mysteries-suspense-thrillers

This enthralling mystery/thriller is the first in the Nic Costa series, set in present-day Rome. We find out who the murderer is shortly before the halfway point, but there are still several mysteries, involving motivation and who might be abetting the serial killer, left to solve.

It was very hard to put this one down, with its intricate plot, complex, eccentric characters, and mix of Vatican intrigue, gruesome murders, a enigmatic young woman academic with a mysterious past, the paintings of Ca...more

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Nov 29, 2010 Brendan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, adventure-thriller, book-club, fiction, mystery

A Season for the Dead tells the story of a series of horrific murders staged around Rome and the woman who seems to be at the center of them. We follow vigorous young Police Detective Nic Costa as he pursues the crimes and the criminal right to the corrupted hierarchies of the Vatican itself! A few thoughts:

* This book is a decent thriller, but we get too many points of view. We see the killer, we see both detectives, the police chief, the architect, the degenerate, the victims. It makes the na...more

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Oct 06, 2009 Eric_W rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: police-procedural

This is the first in a series featuring Nic Costa and Inspector Falcone. Sara Faranese is studying in the Vatican library when a colleague rushes in and frankly whispers, "In the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." He then displays a pistol and a bag containing the skin of a human being. Fearing for her safety a Swiss guard shoots him dead, much to Sara's consternation, because she realized he wasn't trying to kill her, but to convey a message. Realizing that the flayed skin may hav...more This is the first in a series featuring Nic Costa and Inspector Falcone. Sara Faranese is studying in the Vatican library when a colleague rushes in and frankly whispers, "In the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." He then displays a pistol and a bag containing the skin of a human being. Fearing for her safety a Swiss guard shoots him dead, much to Sara's consternation, because she realized he wasn't trying to kill her, but to convey a message. Realizing that the flayed skin may have some reference to St. Bartholome and she drags Coasta and his partner Rossi to that saints church where they discover two more flayed bodies, her erstwhile lover and Stefano Rinaldi's wife. Soon others are being killed and posed in bizarre ways that suggest a link to early martyrs.

Lots of fascinating detail about Rome, Italian customs and how to flay a body. There is a rather gross description of just how to do it (might take about an hour and requires lots of anatomical knowledge and strength) not to mention a reference to some cultures that tried to do it while the victims remained alive. And by the way, now that I have your attention, some Italians enjoy eating offal, prepared in all sorts of garlicy ways. This is apparently from the days when the clergy got all the good parts and the rest were thrown to the proletariat who discovered ways to make it more than palatable. There is a nifty (hmm, perhaps bad choice of words) scene where Costa is invited to dinner with the brilliant pathologist, "crazy" Theresa, and they eat at one of these restaurants. Costa is a vegetarian.

I liked this book, but it does seem that some of the tantalizing leads, for example the "seed of the church" comment above that appears to be significant early on, never gets linked to anything later on. Lots of neat conspiracy stuff. While the inter-connectivity of some of the characters might stretch one's credibility, the shades of gray in the characterizations are what I found most intriguing about the book.

Caravaggio's paintings play an important role that I enjoyed. This is probably the book that Dan Brown wishes he could have written. Of other Italian location writers, I would place him closest to Michael Dibdin, if perhaps not quite as intellectual.
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Apr 28, 2011 Gretchen rated it 4 of 5 stars

First in a series featuring a 27 year old cop, Nic Costa. The plot is, at times, almost pastoral, but mostly knock over the head gruesome. Set in the grandeur of Rome and the Vatican, there are many murders, a green-eyed heroine, (writers ought to wake up and realize that EVERYONE uses green eyes for their special characters) a disgraced cardinal,and Nic's Communist father who represents sanity and a kinder world. A lot of people are killed and our hero ends up pretty discouraged, but have no fe...more

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Mar 02, 2010 Bluemoon rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: crime buffs

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Shelves: mystery, tree-waster

It was...interesting. I didn't love the book but i also didn't hate it. The reason why I picked the book was because it said on the cover that it's "better than The Da Vinci Code". The problem is, its not! It's devoid of any Da Vinci Code essence, but it was good on it's own category. The character development is good and it makes you love/hate the characters and David Hewson has a way of writing that makes you pity the villain. I'm conflicted with this book. Would I recommend it? Yes. Would i r...more

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Aug 03, 2009 Carolyn Watson rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is the 1st book in the Nic Costa series. They take place in Rome and included numerous interesting historical, architectural and art facts about the city that are woven into the events of the mysteries in a significant way. This one is very dark and gruesome as victims are murdered in the same ways the saints were sacrificed. But, if you can get past that, you will identify with Nic and his partner as they seek the truth from a beautiful, mysterous young lady. It also presents the relations...more

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Jun 22, 2009 Genevieve rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Oct 06, 2012 Ruth rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: crime-modern

C2004. I decided to start off with the first book in the Nic Costa series because I really enjoyed The Fallen Angel. I finished the book but it was much darker and drearier than The Fallen Angel – although that was no light read either. I didn’t see the twist coming and I certainly do not understand most of the character’s motivations. But, the writing was still really good and I am glad that this book must have been successfully received by the general public otherwise the rest of the series ma...more

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Jul 21, 2008 LARRY rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: whodunit

As posted in [http://www.amazon.com]:

I guess I was rushing that day and in my haste, I thought *Season of the Dead* would be somewhat similar to Dan Brown's *The Da Vinci Code*. Boy, was I wrong!

Nonetheless, I thought this book was long-winded in trying to figure out what is going on and how it ties to the Vatican. Professor Sara Farnese is in the Vatican library, doing her own research when a colleague approaches her. He's carrying with him a gun and a bloody bag, which contains human skin. Th...more

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Feb 12, 2008 Nancy Oakes rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-series-first-novel, mystery

I would call this one a literary mystery. No cozy material here -- if you're expecting a quick read, forget it. It is tangled & convoluted, very much into character development (as a first in a series should be) and the mystery itself is at times a bit complicated. I thought it was an excellent book, myself, a very intelligent thriller.

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Set in Rome, the story opens in the reading room of the Vatican Library, where professor Sara Farenese is thinking about her upcoming...more I would call this one a literary mystery. No cozy material here -- if you're expecting a quick read, forget it. It is tangled & convoluted, very much into character development (as a first in a series should be) and the mystery itself is at times a bit complicated. I thought it was an excellent book, myself, a very intelligent thriller.

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Set in Rome, the story opens in the reading room of the Vatican Library, where professor Sara Farenese is thinking about her upcoming dinner date while reading. The next thing she knows, a friend of hers, Stefano Renaldi, comes into the reading room -- but not as a colleague -- holding a gun & some kind of bag. He dumps the contents on a table and out comes the flayed skin of a human being. Stefano raises the gun and says "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." Sara has no idea what he's talking about, but before she has time to ask him any questions, the security guard & Vatican police rush into room. Sara does not think she is in any danger because Rinaldi is a friend, but before she can convey this to the guard, he shoots Stefano. Meanwhile, the Rome police catch wind of what is happening, and while the Vatican is supposed to be off limits, young Nic Costa and his older partner Luca Rossi decide to check it out. Tracking Rinaldi's movements, they are led to a church, where they find a woman who has hanged herself and a man with no skin. It soon becomes apparent that Sara knew the dead man (he was to be her dinner date) and had obvious connections with Rinaldi. As Costa and Rossi investigate further, other murders occur, and each of the victims has something to do with Sara. Nic must figure out what the connection is and Sara's not talking. In the meantime, the killings continue, each one posed in a different church to reflect a scene from the martyrdom of various saints. Some of the scenes are kind of grisly, but the author doesn't dwell on them for too long. Season for the Dead is a suspenseful police procedural that will keep you reading for a long time.(less)

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Jun 25, 2010 Nicci B rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Aug 28, 2009 Leslie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Based on the most recent Costa novel, I expected to like the beginning of the series more. Hewson's potential shines, and the Roman scenery and characterization are great, but the mystery itself is a mess. Hewson couldn't decide whether he was writing a serial killer thriller with involvement by the Vatican or the usual sordid Questura conspiracy thriller. The revelations are less and less revelatory and more and more expected. That aside, Nic Costa is a welcome addition to the pantheon of Itali...more

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Dec 13, 2008 Walt rated it 4 of 5 stars

A 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. A Season for the Dead, if sometimes blissfully over the top, is intelligent entertainmentReview:
Outsized, 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

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Apr 06, 2012 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, library-loan

Hmmm...I'm actually not sure what to make of this book. I am not comfortable with especially gruesome torture and murder as entertainment but the story was compelling enough to keep me going. I liked it because of what I thought was happening, the developing relationships but those are not going where I thought they might be going. I enjoyed the way Caravaggio's works were used in the story and there was much to appeal to my prejudices.

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Sep 20, 2011 Bettie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Bettie by: Noran Miss Pumkin

Shelves: published-2003, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, autumn-2011, mystery-thriller, italy, families, filthy-lucre, revenge, serial-killer, series

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Jun 07, 2009 Amy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

I had picked up The Villa of Mysteries last spring before a trip to Italy, primarily because of the setting. I do enjoy reading books set in places I have travelled to our plan on travelling to. Having enjoyed The Villa of Mysteries, I decided to try another of Hewson's novels.

The writing is generally strong and the descriptions of the locations in Rome are excellent; however Hewson relies too much on the macabre and out-right weird to engage the reader. His secondary and tertiary characters are...more

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Mar 05, 2011 Kelli rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller-horror

This book has everything-history, drama, sensuality, and suspense. A Season for the Dead
is the first book I've read by David Hewson, and I was impressed. I really liked the characters, especially Nic Costa, and the story was well written and fascinating.

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Jul 24, 2011 Reetta Saine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dekkarit

Alku lupasi paljon, sillä nylkemistä on vain pakko rakastaa. Taso laski kuitenkin nopeasti toistamaan korruptiota, salaliittoja, epäilyjä, tympeää seksiä ja kivat tyypit pääsi hengestään. Tiukemmalla ryhdikkyydellä Vatikaanin pahuus ja salaiset kansiot olisivat päässeet paremmin oikeuksiinsa, mutta kidutukset olivat kyllä sieltä parhaasta päästä. Valitettavasti pyhä Stefanus oli jätetty pois, eikä neulepuikkoja nähty :(.

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DAVID HEWSON was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He has written sixteen novels, as well as several travel books. Until 2005 he was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times until becoming a full-time author. David lives in Kent but visits Italy frequently. All 11 of his Italian books are now in development as TV movies.

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