The Villa of Mysteries (2004) is the second book in the Detective Nic Costa series based in Rome, Italy.
Hardback: When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the River Tiber, Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, thinks she's got the victim of an ancient pagan ritual on her hands.
She's wrong.
Inspector Leo Falcone knows this case is recent history and the horror is still very much alive.
So begins an investigation that will take the police deep into the dark underworld of modern-day Rome's most disturbing and sinister secrets.
Nic Costa is trying to stay off the drink.
Gianni Peroni used to work vice until he was caught in one of his own department's stings.
Emilio Neri, the local Mafia boss, can't trust his own son and Vergil Wallis, the former American mobster, is refusing to talk.
Meanwhile, someone is trying very hard to kill the pathologist.
And now another beautiful young woman has gone missing.
A riveting thriller that appropriates the beauty and savagery of classical Rome and plays them off against the corruption and sleaze of the present day.
About the author: David Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He worked as a staff writer on The Times from 1978, and was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times before giving it up entirely in 2005 to concentrate on writing fiction. Hewson is also the author who recreates the Bafta-winning Danish TV series The Killing into literary form - The Killing (2012) and The Killing II (2013). Both books are available in shops now. The author lives in Kent, England.
More information and updates can be found on the author's website.
Rating: 4/5
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