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Sinterklaas, a beaming, friendly saint with a white beard, was set to mark his arrival in Amsterdam with a parade so celebrated it would be watched live on television throughout the Netherlands. Today the crowds would run into three hundred thousand or more, and the police presence top four figures. The city centre was closed to all traffic as a golden barge bore Sinterklaas down the Amstel river, surrounded by a throng of private boats full of families trying to get close.''Amsterdam is bursting at the seams with children trying to get a glimpse of their hero and families enjoying the occasion. The police are out in force, struggling to manage the crowds on one of the busiest days of the year.Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant, Laura Bakker, when the first grenade hits. As Sinterklaas prepares to address the crowds a terrorist outrage grips the heart of the city. In the chaos a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But the abducted child isn''t the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought. She''s the daughter of an impoverished Georgian prostitute, friendless and trapped in the web of vice that is Amsterdam''s Red Light District. As the security forces and the police clash over the ensuing investigation the perpetrator''s horrifying demands become clear. Vos, trapped in a turf war with state intelligence, tries to unravel a conspiracy that reaches from the brothels of the city to the hierarchy of the security services. And at its heart lies an eight-year-old girl, snatched from a loving mother then ferried from one criminal lair to the next, her life in the balance as Vos and Laura Bakker struggle to uncover the shocking truth behind her abduction. What is the life of one immigrant child worth in the greater political game emerging around them?

Detective Nic Costa gaat na de moord op een Italiaanse politicus de strijd aan met een terrorist die is geobsedeerd door de Etrusken.

David Hewson''s The Killing 3 is the novelization of the third series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. Detective Inspector for homicide, Sarah Lund, is contacted by old flame Mathias Borch from National Intelligence. Borch fears that what first appeared to be a random killing at the docks is the beginning of an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Troels Hartmann. The murder draws attention towards the shipping and oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen. When Zeuthen''s 9-year-old daughter, Emilie, is kidnapped the investigation takes on a different dimension as it soon becomes clear that her disappearance is linked to the murder of a young girl in Jutland some years earlier. Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign, made all the more turbulent because of the mounting financial crisis. He needs Zeeland''s backing. Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by Emilie''s perpetrator before it''s too late. And can she finally face the demons that have long haunted her?

Anneliese Vos, sixteen-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared three years ago in mysterious circumstances. Her distraught father''s desperate search reveals nothing and results in his departure from the police force. Pieter now lives in a broken down houseboat in the colourful Amsterdam neighbourhood of the Jordaan. One day, while Vos is wasting time at the Rijksmuseum staring at a doll''s house that seems to be connected in some way to the case, Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective from the provinces, visits him. She''s come to tell him that Katja Prins, daughter of an important local politician, has gone missing in circumstances similar to Anneliese. In the company of the intriguing and awkward Bakker Vos finds himself drawn back into the life of a detective. A life which he thought he had left behind. Hoping against hope that somewhere will lay a clue to the fate of Anneliese, the daughter he blames himself for losing . . .

Nic Costa (6) Bij een erotisch schilderij van Caravaggio worden een dode man en vrouw aangetroffen. Aanwijzingen leiden Costa naar een invloedrijke, aristocratische groep die zich de ‘Ekstatici’ noemt In een verborgen studio in een afgelegen Romeinse wijk, waar het Vaticaan de prostitutie vroeger oogluikend toeliet, worden een man en een vrouw dood aangetroffen voor een van de mooiste schilderijen die rechercheur Nic Costa in zijn leven ooit heeft gezien: een tot dan toe onbekend erotisch schilderij van de grote meester Caravaggio. Uit het onderzoek van de patholoog-anatoom blijkt dat de vrouw vlak voor haar dood seks heeft gehad. Haar dij is zodanig bewerkt met een mes dat het patroon lijkt op de kenmerkende inkerving die Caravaggio op zijn schilderijen zette. Aanwijzingen leiden Nic Costa naar een groep aristocratische en invloedrijke Romeinen, die zich de `extasisten noemen. Het is echter vrijwel onmogelijk hun gangen na te gaan, omdat ze van hogerhand worden beschermd tegen onderzoek naar hun duistere praktijken. Costa krijgt hulp in de gedaante van Zuster Agata, een expert op het gebied van 17de-eeuwse schilderkunst. Maar juist zij wordt de spil, de getuige én het doelwit in een zaak die hen beiden terugvoert naar het verleden van Caravaggio en de redenen waarom die destijds Rome moest ontvluchten `De spanning is bloeddrukverhogend en de elegante schrijfstijl van Hewson maakt deze thriller weer helemaal af. Anne Jongeling op Nu.nl, vijf sterren David Hewson brak in Nederland door met De Vaticaanse moorden, het eerste boek rond rechercheur Nic Costa. De Romeinse lusthof is het zesde boek in deze verslavende reeks, die zich afspeelt in Rome.

Twee doden lijken niets gemeen te hebben, behalve dat beide lijken afwijkende sokken dragen... Ze blijken elk een sok van elkaar aan te hebben. Een opmerkelijke zaak voor Nic Costa. Het is een rustige dag in Rome, Nic Costa is druk met een zaak en Gianni Peroni verveelt zich, maqr dat verandert wanneer er twee lijken worden binnengebracht. De doden lijken niets gemeen te hebben, behalve dat beide lijken afwijkende sokken dragen... Ze blijken elk een sok van elkaar aan te hebben.

David Hewson''s The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark – a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realizes that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed . . .

A page-turning adaptation of the second season of the original Danish television series The Killing, from the author of the Detective Nic Costa series It''s been two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark--a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realizes that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed.

Wie heeft Nanna Birk Larsen vermoord?Deze vraag hield miljoenen tv-kijkers over de hele wereld in de ban. Alles begint wanneer inspecteur Sarah Lund zich meldt voor haar laatste werkdag in Kopenhagen en de negentienjarige Nanna als vermist wordt opgegeven. Dezelfde dag nog wordt het lijk van de jonge vrouw gevonden. Sarah besluit instinctief haar geplande verhuizing naar Zweden uit te stellen en samen met haar beoogde vervanger het moordonderzoek te leiden. Verschillende verdachten passeren de revue, en de jacht op de moordenaar van Nanna raakt steeds meer overschaduwd door geweld en politieke intriges.

David Hewson''s The Killing 1 is the novelization of the first series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. ''Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland, through the Pentecost Forest. The chill water, the fear, his presence not so far away . . . There is one torchlight on her now, the single blazing eye. And it is here . . .'' Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when nineteen-year-old student, Nanna Birk Larsen, is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund''s plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nanna''s family struggles to cope with their loss, local politician, Troels Hartmann, is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall and the murder suddenly come to light , the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of twenty days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.

You are a writer and you have a killer book idea. When your project starts to take off you will find yourself managing a writhing tangle of ideas, possibilities and potential potholes. How do you turn your inspiration into a finished novel? Writing a User''s Manual offers practical insight into the processes that go into writing a novel, from planning to story development, research to revision and, finally, delivery in a form which will catch the eye of an agent or publisher. David Hewson, a highly productive and successful writer of popular fiction with more than sixteen novels in print in twenty or so languages, shows how to manage the day to day process of writing. Writers will learn how to get the best out of software and novel writing packages such as Scrivener, which help you view your novel not as one piece of text, but as individual linked scenes, each with their own statistics, notes and place within the novel structure. As you write, you will need to assemble the main building blocks to underpin your artistry : story structure; genre - and how that affects what you write; point of view; past, present or future tense; software for keeping a book journal to manage your ideas, research and outlining; organization and more. The advice contained in this book could mean the difference between finishing your novel, and a never-ending work in progress. An essential tool for writers of all kinds. Foreword by Lee Child.

It''s February, and Carnival time in Venice. Bright blue skies and freezing temperatures welcome Teresa Lupo, forensic pathologist to the Rome Questura, to the city. She is greeted off the vaporetto by an anonymous masked man dressed as The Plague Doctor. Teresa has taken time out from her job to find her beloved bohemian aunt Sofia who has mysteriously disappeared. There seem to be no clues as to her whereabouts, but a visit to Sofia''s very strange apartment in the Dorsoduro confirms Teresa''s suspicions that all is not well. The puzzle deepens when a letter reveals a piece of fiction in which both Sofia and Teresa appear. Even more strange, are the links to Venetian culture which gradually begin to surface. Are the messages being sent by Sofia herself? Her abductor? Or a third party seeking to help her unravel the mystery? The revelation when it comes is as surprising and shocking as Sofia''s fate.

This is not your parents'' Macbeth or the one you read in high-school English class. A dark and bloody tale of a Scottish lord and his beloved wife trying to save their eleventh-century kingdom from its corrupt king, Macbeth: A Novel hurtles toward listeners in gripping contemporary prose, thanks to novelists David Hewson and A. J. Hartley. With the verve of today''s fast-paced thrillers, Hewson and Hartley create an electrifying tapestry out of Shakespeare''s tale, relaunching two of literature''s most powerful characters. Macbeth, a loyal servant to the Scottish crown, has shed blood time and again for his homeland. And yet the country is crumbling around him, torn apart by warring clans and foreign marauders and ruled by a corrupt, self-serving king. Desperate to preserve the kingdom, Macbeth and his wife, Skena, craft an ambitious plan to keep Scotland whole, never intending the tragic spiral of murder, treachery, and personal collapse that ensues.

Wanneer een jonge vrouw op zoek gaat naar haar tante die in Venetië is verdwenen, stuit ze op enkele mysterieuze brieven waarin zij beiden ook een rol spelen.

Wanneer Daniel er door zijn werkgever op uit wordt gestuurd om in Venetië een viool te kopen van een dief, zet hij een kettingreactie van geweld en bedrog in gang. ''Gedegen onderzoek naar het Venetiaanse heden en verleden, twee verhaallijnen die elkaar als in een muziekstuk aanvullen. Con brio.'' The Spectator ''Deze Venetiaanse thriller schetst een verleidelijk verhaal van intrige, moord en seks.'' Publishers Weekly Daniel Forster heeft een zomerbaantje in de bibliotheek van een verzamelaar en raakt betoverd door het verleidelijke Venetië. Wanneer hij er door zijn werkgever op uit wordt gestuurd om een viool te kopen van een dief, zet hij een kettingreactie van geweld en bedrog in gang. Hij komt terecht in een politieonderzoek en in een wervelwind die draait om een mooie vrouw, een mysterieus palazzo en een eeuwenoude verloren gewaande partituur. Zonder dat hij het beseft, volgt Daniel met elke stap de voetsporen van een andere jongeman, die in 1733 oog in oog kwam te staan met een moordenaar. Twee verhalen van passie en komen samen en slepen de lezer mee van een geniaal wonderkind en een genadeloze moordenaar naar een schitterend crescendo.

Nic Costa (7) Tijdens de première van de film Inferno wordt het dodenmasker van Dante tentoongesteld. Bij de onthulling blijkt het te zijn vervangen door het hoofd van de hoofdrolspeler... Tijdens de première van de controversiële film Inferno wordt het dodenmasker van Dante tentoongesteld. Nic Costa moet de kostbare relikwie bewaken, maar bij de onthulling blijkt het te zijn vervangen door het hoofd van de ster van de film, die op gruwelijke wijze is vermoord. Dan wordt er ook een aanslag gepleegd op de hoofdrolspeelster. Costa en zijn team reizen af naar San Francisco voor de Amerikaanse première, in de hoop het masker te vinden. Daar is de actrice opnieuw doelwit van een aanslag. Costa zet alles op alles om de dader te vinden voordat het leven de kunst imiteert

On a warm, golden evening in Rome, celebrities and paparazzi gather at the Villa Borghese as a legendary director premieres his long-anticipated film version of Dante’s Inferno. But minutes later the scene is chaos: A man lies dead, the film’s star is missing, and a priceless relic has vanished. As the premiere shifts locations—from Rome to San Francisco—detective Nic Costa finds himself on U.S. shores for the first time, charged with protecting a trove of rare Italian artworks and artifacts, as well as an American film actress, Maggie Flavier. When a killer indeed strikes, and with Flavier in danger, Costa races to unravel the chilling clues that connect Dante’s nine circles of Hell to the shattering revelations of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. But he may be too late. For a cunning plot is closing in around Costa, guided by a poet’s ancient vision of sin and punishment and a killer’s genius for terror. Previously published as Dante''s Numbers. From the Paperback edition.

David Hewson is the author of the highly acclaimed Nic Costa detective series, set in Rome. In Dead Men''s Socks, this exclusive short story, Hewson focuses on one of Nic Costa''s colleagues, Gianni Peroni. Gianni Peroni is at a loose end – his friends and colleagues are all out of the office for a variety of different reasons. He''s got nothing urgent to do but he notices that the pathologist has a busy day ahead: during the night two corpses were picked out of the Tiber. At first glance, it seems that the similarities between the two men end there. The bodies were found in different parts of the river, and it is clear once they have been identified that they come from very different walks of life. One is a wealthy psychiatrist, the other a young Roma boy with a police record for petty theft. But upon closer examination, Peroni notices something rather extraordinary. The men are both wearing exactly the same odd socks . . .

It is Holy Week in Seville and the heat is rising. A murderer is on the loose and visiting 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. The Angel Brothers, two controversial modern artists, are found dead in a killing that emulates a famous painting, and an old lady remembers the atrocities of the Civil War. Maria 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. First published as Semana Santa in 1996 by HarperCollins.

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from David Hewson''s The Fallen Angel. It’s the height of the tourist season in Rome, and security is tight as world leaders gather for a G8 summit. While politicians bicker behind the walls of the illustrious Palazzo del Quirinale, a terrible threat is lurking outside—a threat that’s been dormant for a long time but is now very much awake. In David Hewson’s powerful new thriller, Detective Nic Costa and the men and women of the Questura must work in secret to thwart a conspiracy that reaches higher than any of them could have imagined. In the early hours of a sultry summer evening, a government car comes under fire along the narrow Via delle Quattro Fontane. When the shots die away, one person lies dead and another—Ministry of Interior official Giovanni Batisti—has been abducted. The terrible fate of the missing bureaucrat is soon revealed—leaving all of Italy in shock. Who would do such a thing? And why? All signs point to a mysterious terrorist group that calls itself the Blue Demon, an organization whose last campaign of violence ended two decades ago. For Detective Nic Costa, solving this case is an all-consuming obsession. But as he and his team begin their investigation, they find themselves reduced to expensive bodyguards—and their hands tied with red tape—until tragedy strikes and claims one of their own. Hampered at every turn by the Ministry of Interior’s meddling security chief and a cagey and powerful prime minister, Costa and the members of his team are determined to pursue their quest for justice. As one terror attack after another sends the Eternal City spiraling into panic, Nic Costa vows that nothing will stop him from catching a vengeful madman bent on tearing apart his city, its people, and its very history.

Nic suspects that a politician''s murder is connected to a series of twenty-year-old ritualistic killings.

Wanneer de Romeinse politie wordt geconfronteerd met de moord op een Amerikaanse toeriste, die met een verminkte rug in het Pantheon is gevonden, wil de FBI de zaak direct overnemen.

Vaticaan, waar een bankschandaal een strijd heeft ontketend onder de kardinalen. Een zeer verdienstelijk boek sterk genoeg om uit te kijken naar de volgende delen. **** Thrillergids Vrij Nederland Mooi opgebouwde, spannende sfeervolle thriller, met de jonge Nic Costa als veelbelovende sympathieke nieuwe held - NBD

Een archeoloog wordt na veertien jaar gevangenisstraf op verdenking van moord op zijn destijds 7-jarige zoon opgepakt voor de moord op een van zijn vroegere studenten.

As celebrities and paparazzi gather in Rome for the premiere of a film version of Dante''s "Inferno," a man is found dead and the film''s star is missing, leading Detective Nic Costa on a terrifying journey from Rome to San Francisco and beyond.

The Cemetery of Secrets is an atmospheric mystery by the bestselling author of The Killing, David Hewson. In the ancient burial ground of San Michele on an island off Venice, a young woman''s casket is prised open, an object wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary story begins. Young academic Daniel Forster arrives in Venice working for the summer in the library of a private collector. When his employer sends him to buy a stolen violin from a petty thief, he ignites a chain of violence, deception, intrigue and murder. Daniel is drawn into the police investigation surrounding a beautiful woman, a mysterious palazzo and a lost musical masterpiece dating back to 1733. Separated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal and danger collide transporting the reader from the intrigue of Vivaldi''s Venice to the gritty world of a modern detective. From the genius of prodigy to the greed of a killer, The Cemetery of Secrets builds to a shattering crescendo - and one last, breathtaking surprise. Previously titled Lucifer''s Shadow.

Drie Romeinse politiemensen worden naar Venetië gehaald om de mysterieuze dood van een glasblazer en diens vrouw te onderzoeken.