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David Hewson

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in Rotherham, The United Kingdom

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http://davidhewson.com/

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Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction

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DAVID HEWSON was born in Yorkshire in 1953. His books range from the Nic Costa series set in Italy to adaptations of The Killing in Copenhagen and the Pieter Vos series in Amsterdam.
He's adapted Shakespeare for Audible and in 2018 won the Audie for best original work for Romeo and Juliet: A Novel, narrated by Richard Armitage.
2019 sees the release of a new, full-cast Audible drama set in New York, Last Seen Wearing, and a standalone novel set in the Faroe Islands, Devil's Fjord.

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Nic Costa

Pieter Vos

The Killing
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Average rating: 3.79 · 34,273 ratings · 4,116 reviews · 110 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Killing (The Killing, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 2,655 ratings — published 2012 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Season for the Dead (Nic Costa, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 2,665 ratings — published 2003 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Villa Of Mysteries (Nic Costa, #2) 3.63 avg rating — 1,502 ratings — published 2003 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sacred Cut (Nic Costa, #3) 3.72 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 2005 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Dolls (Pieter Vos, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 1,302 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Medici Murders 3.77 avg rating — 1,049 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lizard's Bite (Nic Costa, #4) 3.79 avg rating — 1,034 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garden Of Evil (Nic Costa, #6) 3.83 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seventh Sacrament (Nic Costa, #5) 3.79 avg rating — 1,001 ratings — published 2007 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garden of Angels 4.18 avg rating — 853 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by David Hewson

Nic Costa (10 books)
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3.72 avg rating — 11,062 ratings

The Killing (3 books)
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4.03 avg rating — 4,174 ratings

Pieter Vos (4 books)
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3.78 avg rating — 2,904 ratings

Venetian Mystery (2 books)
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3.84 avg rating — 1,496 ratings

Pino Fratelli and Julia Wellbeloved (1 book)
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3.86 avg rating — 268 ratings

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“The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.”
― A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth

tags: cheating, fidelity, infidelity, sex

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“To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.”
― David Hewson, Macbeth

tags: chaos, hope, hope-for-the-future, watching

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“What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.”
― A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, Macbeth

tags: choices-and-consequences, destiny

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October/November 2014 Group Read. Voting time is October 9th through the 14th.

Six Years/Harlan Coben

26 votes 11.8%

A Walk Among the Tombstones/Lawrence Block

21 votes 9.5%

The Innocent/David Baldacci

21 votes 9.5%

The Kill Artist/Daniel Silva

15 votes 6.8%

Storm Front/Jim Butcher

15 votes 6.8%

Cliff Diver/Carmen Amato

11 votes 5.0%

Think of a Number/John Verdon

11 votes 5.0%

Roseanna/Maj Sjöwall

10 votes 4.5%

Dead Simple/Peter James

10 votes 4.5%

King Solomon's Carpet/Barbara Vine

10 votes 4.5%

The Killing/David Hewson

10 votes 4.5%

River of Darkness/Rennie Airth

9 votes 4.1%

Edge of Dark Water/Joe R. Lansdale

7 votes 3.2%

Bloodline/Mark Billingham

7 votes 3.2%

The Burnt House/Faye Kellerman

7 votes 3.2%

Night And Silence/Aline Templeton

6 votes 2.7%

Sleep Tight/Rachel Abbott

6 votes 2.7%

Fatal Act/Leigh Russell

4 votes 1.8%

Natural Causes/James Oswald

4 votes 1.8%

Faces of the Gone/Brad Parks

3 votes 1.4%

The Sword of God/Mark Dawson

2 votes 0.9%

Laidlaw/William McIlvanney

2 votes 0.9%

The Last Good Man/A.J. Kazinski

2 votes 0.9%

Mystery in White/J. Jefferson Farjeon

1 vote 0.5%

Eternity/Tamara Thorne

0 votes 0.0%

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