<![CDATA[The Lizard's Bite (Nic Costa, #4)]]>

false <![CDATA[The Lizard's Bite (Nic Costa, #4)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179468517m/920909.jpg 920909 7 On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve....In this spellbinding new novel featuring Detective Nic Costa, author David Hewson weaves together the rich fabric of Europe’s most beguiling city with a riveting tale of passion, corruption, and the poisonous bite of betrayal. On their private island, the Arcangelo family defy the world: living in a decaying palazzo, making glass in a terrifying, archaic furnace, watching their absurd exhibition hall sink into disrepair. But now the world is coming to their dying outpost in a crumbling corner of a Venice that tourists never see. Police boats and vaporetti bring investigators, curiosity seekers, and one man who plans to own the property himself. With two family members consumed by the foundry fire, both mystery and opportunity have been bared to the bone. On special assignment from Rome, Detective Nic Costa, along with his partner, his boss, and a dogged pathologist named Teresa Lupo, is getting in the way of progress, Venetian-style. They know that Uriel Arcangelo and his wife were murdered. They know that a predatory Englishman must be a suspect, as is the family of the murdered woman. And while everyone wants the Roman cops to give up and go home, they can’t–because a matter of desire, death, and lies has just turned murderously on one of them.... A tale as bewitching as its lush backdrop, The Lizard’s Bite is an astounding alchemy of superb writing, vibrant atmosphere, and sheer, gripping suspense. From the Hardcover edition. 1831523 2006 The Lizard's Bite (Nic Costa, #4) total:63|5:7|4:34|3:18|2:3|1:1| 63 232 124 11 3 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 08:01:44 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 08:09:24 -0800 2009
In Venice they are joined by girlfriends, Emily Deacon and Teresa Lupo for holiday that is postponed wh...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 15:08:38 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 11:40:03 -0700 2009
This book takes place with Nic and his cohorts transfered to Venus as a punishment. In the last week of their...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 12 09:24:31 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 09:24:31 -0800 2008
If you haven't read the previous books in the series, stop here.

If you have, you'll remember that at the end of the last one (The Sacred Cut), the main characters, Nic Costa, Gianni Peroni and their boss Leo Falcone, have been exiled to Venice for awhi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 17:06:48 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 18:33:14 -0700 2007 Hewson, David – 4th in series
Dell Suspense, 2006, US Paperback – ISBN: 9780440243007
First Sentence: In the shifting darkness of the vessel’s bowels, low over the undulating black water, the animal waited, trembling....more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 08 11:27:44 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 18:35:27 -0800 2008
The reason the two venitien cops and their wives are involved, its rather a life style for them, and is because they're leading in investigations, it wasn’t to get involved with the family, which nearly seemed ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 04 15:19:51 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 15:19:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:35:08 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 07:04:37 -0700 2009 very good so far

good book about Venice, characters are fleshed out and seem real but mystery is not that mysterious ]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:37:06 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:38:53 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 05:10:29 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 03:35:37 -0800 2008 I thought the ending was a bit of an anticlimax. The author could not think of a way to convict the criminal so he had him shot!!]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 08:06:44 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 06:21:01 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Wed Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 02 11:02:37 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 11:03:30 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Nov 24 17:53:05 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 17:53:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Nov 17 07:21:34 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 07:21:34 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 12 07:08:49 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 07:08:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 12:31:45 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:31:45 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Nov 08 07:02:37 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:24:27 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 12:24:27 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 13:41:03 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 13:41:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 10:51:04 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 10:51:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 21:00:42 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 21:00:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 10:01:51 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 15:14:23 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=920909