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'''David Hewson''' (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In [[Rome]], led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with ''A Season for the Dead'', 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 and Company|Robert Hale]], In the United Kingdom, In 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries, and has been Re<sup>−</sup>issued. His second book was set In Spain during [[Holy Week]] and won the [[W H Smith]] Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels of 1996. Its film adaptation, released In 2002, was also titled ''[[Semana santa (film)|Semana santa]]''. Apart from that He has written a number of standalone novels, including ''Lucifer'S Shadow'' and ''The Promised Land'', and As well the second chapter of the audio serial novel ''The Chopin Manuscript'' started by [[Jeffery Deaver]], with [[Lee Child]] and 13 other Co<sup>−</sup>writers, for the audiobook site [[Audible.com]]. Hewson write three novels each based upon the three series of the Danish TV series ''[[The Killing (Danish TV series)|The Killing]]''.
'''David Hewson''' (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In [[Rome]], led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with ''A Season for the Dead'', 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 and Company|Robert Hale]], in the United Kingdom, in 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries, and it has been reissued.


His second book was set in [[Spain]] during [[Holy Week]] and won the [[W H Smith]] Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels of 1996. Its film adaptation, released in 2002, was also titled ''[[Semana Santa (2002 film)|Semana santa]]''. Apart from that he has written a number of standalone novels, including ''Lucifer's Shadow'' and ''The Promised Land'', and as well 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]].
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Hewson left school at 17 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.<ref>[http://www.davidhewson.com davidhewson.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Hewson wrote three novels, one based on each part of the tripartite Danish TV series ''[[The Killing (Danish TV series)|The Killing]]''. Alongside [[A.J. Hartley]] he wrote prose adaptations of [[William Shakespeare]]'s plays ''[[Macbeth]]'' (released 2011) and ''[[Hamlet]]'' (released 2014) exclusively for Audible.com, and alone he wrote an adaptation of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', again exclusively for Audible. The three novels were narrated by [[Alan Cumming]] and [[Richard Armitage (actor)|Richard Armitage]] (who narrated both ''Hamlet'' and ''Romeo and Juliet''), respectively.

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Hewson left school at 17 and joined a local newspaper, the [[Scarborough Evening News]], 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.<ref>[http://www.davidhewson.com davidhewson.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


==Novels==
==Novels==
*''Shanghai Thunder'' (1986) ISBN 0-7090-2553-X
*''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)
*''Semana Santa'' (1995) {{ISBN|3-550-08239-8}} (reissued as ''Death in Seville'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-0-330-51990-8}})
*''[[Epiphany (novel)|Epiphany]]'' (1997) ISBN 0-00-649706-3
*''[[Epiphany (novel)|Epiphany]]'' (1997) {{ISBN|0-00-649706-3}}
*''Solstice'' (1998) ISBN 0-446-52449-2
*''Solstice'' (1998) {{ISBN|0-446-52449-2}}
*''Native Rites'' (1999) ISBN 0-00-651358-1
*''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
*''Lucifer’s Shadow'' (revised edition re-entitled ''The Cemetery of Secrets'') (2001) {{ISBN|0-385-33794-9}}
*''The Promised Land'' (2007)
*''The Promised Land'' (2007)
*''The Killing: Book One'' (2012) ISBN 1447208412
*''Carnival for the Dead'' (2012) {{ISBN|978-0-230-75593-2}}
*''The Killing: Book One'' (2012) {{ISBN|1447208412}}<ref>The Telegraph 2012 [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9243399/The-Killing-by-David-Hewson-review.html The Killing by David Hewson: review] "Novels based on television series don’t hold much promise, but this adaptation of 'The Killing' is a huge success, says Toby Clements."</ref>
*''The Killing: Book Two'' (2013) ISBN 9781447208426
*''The Killing: Book Three'' (2014) ISBN 9781447246237
*''The Killing: Book Two'' (2013) {{ISBN|9781447208426}}
*''Carnival for the Dead'' (2012) ISBN 978-0-230-75593-2
*''The Killing: Book Three'' (2014) {{ISBN|9781447246237}}
*''The Wrong Girl'' (2015) ISBN 978-1-4472-4618-3
*''The Flood'' (2015) {{ISBN|9781847516251}}
*''Juliet & Romeo'' (2018) {{ISBN|1999855906}}
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;Nic Costa-series
*''A Season for the Dead'' (2003) ISBN 0-385-33722-1
*''Devil's Fjord'' (2019) {{ISBN|9781780291123}}
*''The Villa of Mysteries'' (2004) ISBN 0-385-33772-8
*''Shooter in the Shadows'' (2020) {{ISBN|9781838089719}}
*''The Sacred Cut'' (2005) ISBN 0-385-33849-X
*''The Garden of Angels'' (2021) {{ISBN|9780727850119}}
*''The Medici Murders'' (2022) {{ISBN|1448306566}}

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'''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 Lizard’s Bite'' (2006)
*''The Seventh Sacrament'' (2007)
*''The Seventh Sacrament'' (2007)
*''The Garden of Evil'' (2008) Shortlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digyorkshire.com/HighlightDetails.aspx?Article=202|title=Shortlist for Theakston’s Crime Novel of the year Award 2009 |publisher=digyorkshire.com |date=2 June 2009 |accessdate=2009-06-17}}</ref>
*''The Garden of Evil'' (2008) Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digyorkshire.com/HighlightDetails.aspx?Article=202 |title=Shortlist for Theakston's Crime Novel of the year Award 2009 |publisher=digyorkshire.com |date=2 June 2009 |accessdate=2009-06-17 |archive-date=15 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815160519/http://www.digyorkshire.com/HighlightDetails.aspx?Article=202 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*''Dante's Numbers'' (revised edition ''The Dante Killings'' in the US) (2008)
*''Dante's Numbers'' (revised edition ''The Dante Killings'' in the US) (2008)
*''The Blue Demon'' (''City Of Fear'' in the US) (2009)
*''The Blue Demon'' (''City of Fear'' in the US) (2009)
*''The Fallen Angel'' (2011) ISBN 978-0-230-52937-3
*''The Fallen Angel'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-230-52937-3}}
*''The Savage Shore'' (2019)

'''Pieter Vos series'''
* ''The House of Dolls'' (2014) {{ISBN|978-1447246145}}
* ''The Wrong Girl'' (2015) {{ISBN|978-1447246183}}
* ''Little Sister'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1447293392}}
* ''Sleep Baby Sleep'' (2017) {{ISBN|978-1447293439}}


==Anthologies==
==Anthologies==
*''The Chopin Manuscript (with Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and others, Audible audio serial'' ([[2008 in literature|2007]])
*''The Chopin Manuscript'' (with Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and others, Audible audio serial, 2007).


==Non-fiction==
==Non-fiction==
*{{cite book |last1=Hewson |first1=David |title=Saved: how an English village fought for its survival ... and won |date=2007 |publisher=Matador |isbn=978-1-905886-76-0 |oclc=123375748 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123375748 |language=English}}
*''SAVED'' 2007. ISBN 978-1-905886-76-0


==Awards==
==Awards==
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*[http://www.davidhewson.com David Hewson's web site]
*[http://www.davidhewson.com David Hewson's web site]
*[http://italian-mysteries.com/hewson-interview.html David Hewson Interview]
*[http://italian-mysteries.com/hewson-interview.html David Hewson Interview]
*[http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=BK_THRL_999993&redirectFlag= "The Chopin Manuscript"] at [[Audible.com]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071011202313/http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&productID=BK_THRL_999993&redirectFlag= "The Chopin Manuscript"] at [[Audible.com]]


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Latest revision as of 08:41, 9 May 2024

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

David Hewson
Born (1953-01-09) 9 January 1953 (age 71)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Period1985–present
GenreCrime, Mystery
Website
www.davidhewson.com

David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, 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. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries, and it has been reissued.

His second book was set in Spain during Holy Week and won the W H Smith Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels of 1996. Its film adaptation, released in 2002, was also titled Semana santa. Apart from that he has written a number of standalone novels, including Lucifer's Shadow and The Promised Land, and as well 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.

Hewson wrote three novels, one based on each part of the tripartite Danish TV series The Killing. Alongside A.J. Hartley he wrote prose adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays Macbeth (released 2011) and Hamlet (released 2014) exclusively for Audible.com, and alone he wrote an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, again exclusively for Audible. The three novels were narrated by Alan Cumming and Richard Armitage (who narrated both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet), respectively.

Hewson left school at 17 and joined a local newspaper, the Scarborough Evening News, 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.[1]

Novels

[edit]
  • 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)
  • Carnival for the Dead (2012) ISBN 978-0-230-75593-2
  • The Killing: Book One (2012) ISBN 1447208412[2]
  • The Killing: Book Two (2013) ISBN 9781447208426
  • The Killing: Book Three (2014) ISBN 9781447246237
  • The Flood (2015) ISBN 9781847516251
  • Juliet & Romeo (2018) ISBN 1999855906
  • Devil's Fjord (2019) ISBN 9781780291123
  • Shooter in the Shadows (2020) ISBN 9781838089719
  • The Garden of Angels (2021) ISBN 9780727850119
  • The Medici Murders (2022) ISBN 1448306566

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.[3]
  • 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 978-0-230-52937-3
  • The Savage Shore (2019)

Pieter Vos series

Anthologies

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

Non-fiction

[edit]

Awards

[edit]

In 2008, Hewson and narrator Saul Reichlin won the prize for best unabridged audiobook in the UK[4] 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.[5]

References

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  1. ^ davidhewson.com
  2. ^ The Telegraph 2012 The Killing by David Hewson: review "Novels based on television series don’t hold much promise, but this adaptation of 'The Killing' is a huge success, says Toby Clements."
  3. ^ "Shortlist for Theakston's Crime Novel of the year Award 2009". digyorkshire.com. 2 June 2009. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  4. ^ Audible 11 June 2008
  5. ^ ALA Press release 3 February 2009
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