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A Season for the Dead

When a distraught professor is shot dead after bursting into the Vatican library brandishing a bag filled with flayed human skin, detective Nic Costa is called to the scene, and soon discovers this is just one of a strange series of ritualistic murders.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Black Thorn
  • Year: 2020
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 197x127mm
  • ISBN: 9781838850647
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.3kg
Product code:
518512
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THE FIRST IN THE ACCLAIMED NIC COSTA SERIES

'No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me - nor made it seem so sinister' PETER JAMES

'David Hewson's Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history' TESS GERRITSEN

'Hewson keeps the reader guessing . . . relentlessly tightening the suspense until the end' Daily Telegraph

There's no rest for the wicked . . .

While Rome is sweltering in the height of summer, a serial killer is on the loose. Sara Farnese is working in the Vatican library, when a man bursts in intent on showing her the contents of his bloodied bag, until a guard shoots him. But why was the man targeting Sara? Determined to find answers, Sara's path crosses with a young up-and-coming Roman detective, Nic Costa. He's determined to track down the dangerous killer behind this bizarre and brutal murder and to protect Sara from becoming the next victim . . .
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