David Hewson (author)

For other people of the same name, see David Hewson (disambiguation).

David Hewson
Born	9 January 1953 (1953-01-09)
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1995–present
Genres	Crime, Mystery
www.davidhewson.com

David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of crime and mystery novels. His series of modern crime stories featuring police officers in Rome, led by the young detective Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, and has now been contracted to run to at least nine instalments by British, American, European and Asian publishers. The author's debut novel, Shanghai Thunder, was published by Robert Hale, in the United Kingdom, in 1986. Most copies of the book were sent to libraries, and it is not recognized in subsequent publications. His second book, Semana Santa, set in Spain during Holy Week, was made into a movie starring Mira Sorvino, and won the W H Smith Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels of 1996. He has also written a number of standalone novels, including Lucifer's Shadow and The Promised Land and wrote the second chapter of the audio serial novel The Chopin Manuscript started by Jeffery Deaver, with Lee Child and 13 other co-writers, for the audiobook site Audible.com. In June 2011 it was announced Hewson will write the novels based upon the first two series of the Danish TV series The Killing.

Hewson was involved in the campaign against development by Imperial College at Wye, Kent, starting the web-site save-wye.org. His self-published account of this successful campaign, Saved, was published in April 2007.

Hewson left school at seventeen and joined a local newspaper in the north of England. He was later a news, business and foreign reporter for The Times, and features editor of The Independent when it was launched in 1986. He served as a board member of International Thriller Writers Inc. for four years until 2009.

Novels

• Shanghai Thunder (1986) ISBN 0-7090-2553-X
• Semana Santa (1995) ISBN 3-550-08239-8 (reissued as "Death in Seville" (2010) ISBN 978-0-330-51990-8)
• Epiphany (1997) ISBN 0-00-649706-3
• Solstice (1998) ISBN 0-446-52449-2
• Native Rites (1999) ISBN 0-00-651358-1
• Lucifer’s Shadow (revised edition re-entitled The Cemetery Of Secrets) (2001) ISBN 0-385-33794-9
• The Promised Land (2007)

Nic Costa-series

• A Season for the Dead (2003) ISBN 0-385-33722-1
• The Villa of Mysteries (2004) ISBN 0-385-33772-8
• The Sacred Cut (2005) ISBN 0-385-33849-X
• The Lizard’s Bite (2006)
• The Seventh Sacrament (2007)
• The Garden of Evil (2008) Shortlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009.
• Dante's Numbers (revised edition The Dante Killings in the US) (2008)
• The Blue Demon (City Of Fear in the US) (2009)
• The Fallen Angel (2011) ISBN 978-0230529373
• Carnival for the Dead (2012) ISBN 978-0230755932

Anthologies

• The Chopin Manuscript (with Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and others, Audible audio serial (2007)

Non-fiction

• SAVED 2007. ISBN 978-1-905886-76-0

Awards

In 2008, Hewson and narrator Saul Reichlin won the prize for best unabridged audiobook in the UK for The Seventh Sacrament. In 2009 the sixth Nic Costa novel, The Garden of Evil, won the American Library Association's best genre fiction reading list award for mystery.

External links

• David Hewson's web site
• David Hewson Interview
• "The Chopin Manuscript" at Audible.com