"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, author of The Killing Place
"This is a tour de force sort of novel of stories within stories. Hewson does a masterful job invoking the spirit of Carnival Venice, where no one can be taken at face value as they wend their way through the dark maze of canals. The ending is sensational, intricately layered with surprises." -- Linda Pagliuco, Amazon Vine Reviewer
"This is a tour de force sort of novel of stories within stories. Hewson does a masterful job invoking the spirit of Carnival Venice, where no one can be taken at face value as they wend their way through the dark maze of canals. The ending is sensational, intricately layered with surprises." -- Linda Pagliuco, Amazon Vine Reviewer
Carnival for the Dead by David HewsonFor as long as she can remember, Teresa Lupo has envied her aunt Sofia. After all, she is everything Teresa is not: beautiful, adventurous, wildly creative. While Sofia enjoyed passionate love affairs and traveled the world, thoughtful, methodical Teresa stayed close to home, working her way through the civil-service system to become Rome's senior police forensic specialist.
So when Sofia encounters "a few problems" at her new home in Venice, it is Teresa to whom she turns for help - only to vanish abruptly on the eve of Carnival. Teresa's only clues to her aunt's whereabouts are a mysterious letter, a bouquet of flowers, and a series of short stories by an unknown author, stories in which Sofia and Teresa inexplicably appear.
The bizarre narratives create a complex puzzle, one Teresa can solve only by immersing herself in the art and history of Venice and the fantastic spectacle that is Carnival. But the deeper she ventures into the shadowy spirit of the festival, the more Teresa comes to realize that nothing in the magical city is as it seems.
Novelist David Hewson brings Byzantine and dreamlike Venice vividly to life in this dark and deftly plotted mystery that hearkens back to the spellbinding tales of Daphne du Maurier and M. R. James.
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David Hewson is a prolific and talented thriller writer with a large fanbase. He is well regarded by peers and critics, his Italian-based thrillers are published in dozens of languages and the film rights to the entire Nic Costa series (described by Lee Child as 'terrific') have now been sold. He is now writing the novel versions of the BAFTA award-winning Danish crime drama The Killing.
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