David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In

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, 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

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, ''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

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during

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and won the

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Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels of 1996. Its film adaptation, released in 2002, was also titled ''

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''. 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

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, with

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and 13 other co-writers, for the audiobook site

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. 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

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's plays ''

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'' (released 2011) and ''

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'' (released 2014) exclusively for Audible.com, and alone he wrote an adaptation of ''

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'', again exclusively for Audible. The three novels were narrated by

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and Richard Armitage (who narrated both ''Hamlet'' and ''Romeo and Juliet''), respectively. Hewson left school at 17 and joined a local newspaper, the

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, in the north of England. He was later a news, business and foreign reporter for ''

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'', and features editor of ''

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'' when it was launched in 1986. He served as a board member of

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Inc. for four years until 2009.

Novels

*''Shanghai Thunder'' (1986) *''Semana Santa'' (1995) (reissued as ''Death in Seville'' (2010) ) *''

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'' (1997) *''Solstice'' (1998) *''Native Rites'' (1999) *''Lucifer’s Shadow'' (revised edition re-entitled ''The Cemetery of Secrets'') (2001) *''The Promised Land'' (2007) *''Carnival for the Dead'' (2012) *''The Killing: Book One'' (2012) *''The Killing: Book Two'' (2013) *''The Killing: Book Three'' (2014) *''The Flood'' (2015) *''Juliet & Romeo'' (2018) *''Devil's Fjord'' (2019) *''Shooter in the Shadows'' (2020) *''The Garden of Angels'' (2021) *''The Medici Murders'' (2022) Nic Costa series *''A Season for the Dead'' (2003) *''The Villa of Mysteries'' (2004) *''The Sacred Cut'' (2005) *''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) *''The Savage Shore'' (2019) Pieter Vos series * ''The House of Dolls'' (2014) * ''The Wrong Girl'' (2015) * ''Little Sister'' (2016) * ''Sleep Baby Sleep'' (2017)

Anthologies

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

Non-fiction

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.ALA Press release 3 February 2009
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References

External links

David Hewson's web site"The Chopin Manuscript"
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