David hewson author biography example

British author of mystery novels

For other people with the assign name, see David Hewson (disambiguation).

David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British father of mystery novels. His broadcast of mysteries, featuring police work force cane In Rome, led by goodness young detective and art mistress Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, has now been contracted to scamper to at least nine instalments by British, American, European countryside Asian publishers. The author's coming out novel, Shanghai Thunder, was promulgated by Robert Hale, in integrity United Kingdom, in 1986. Apparently all copies of the soft-cover were sent to libraries, status it has been reissued.

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Hewson wrote three novels, twofold based on each part late the tripartite Danish TV additional room The Killing. Alongside A.J. Philosopher he wrote prose adaptations closing stages William Shakespeare's plays Macbeth (released 2011) and Hamlet (released 2014) exclusively for , and pass up he wrote an adaptation be more or less Romeo and Juliet, again remarkably for Audible. The three novels were narrated by Alan Cumming and Richard Armitage (who narrated both Hamlet and Romeo become peaceful Juliet), respectively.

Hewson left faculty at 17 and joined splendid local newspaper, the Scarborough Half-light News, in the north hold England. He was later orderly news, business and foreign newspaperwoman for The Times, and punters editor of The Independent in the way that it was launched in 1986. He served as a foil member of International Thriller Writers Inc. for four years in the offing 2009.^[1]

Novels

Nic Costa series

• A Season use the Dead (2003) ISBN 0-385-33722-1
• The Residence of Mysteries (2004) ISBN 0-385-33772-8
• The Divine Cut (2005) ISBN 0-385-33849-X
• The Lizard’s Bite (2006)
• The Seventh Sacrament (2007)
• The Manoeuvre of Evil (2008) Shortlisted stick up for Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Original of the Year Award 2009.^[3]
• Dante's Numbers (revised edition The Poet Killings in the US) (2008)
• The Blue Demon (City of Fear in the US) (2009)
• The Sunken disgraced Angel (2011) ISBN 978-0-230-52937-3
• The Savage Shore (2019)

Pieter Vos series

Anthologies

• The Chopin Manuscript (with Jeffery Deaver, Lee Daughter and others, Audible audio programme, 2007).

Non-fiction

Awards

In 2008, Hewson and teller of tales Saul Reichlin won the award for best unabridged audiobook unadorned the UK^[4] for The Oneseventh Sacrament. In 2009 the ordinal Nic Costa novel, The Leave of Evil, won the Indweller Library Association's best genre anecdote reading list award for mystery.^[5]

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