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David Hewson
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Publisher | MacMillan | ||
ISBN | 0330493655 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa, a maverick pathologist, thinks she's got the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. Leo Falcone, the chief inspector, 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 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 ...
Review
Nic Costa must be the unluckiest cop in Rome. He seems always to end up with a bum partner, and it always seems to be a girl that they are trying to find out about or answers to a crime involving a female.
The Villa of Mysteries is another in David Hewson books this time Nic has recovered from his injuries but has been partnered with a cop who has been busted down from the vice squad and doesn't seem to remember how ordinary street cops work. Nic is having to re-educate him! Especialy about how the city of Rome works.
This story is as riverting as any thriller can get with gang wars, old scores to settle and mysteries surrounding a number of blond haired girls. There is also a brilliant part of the story that takes you down into ancient ruins and you can feel the tension and the drama that has taken place there long before this book ever came to be written.
The Villa of Mysteries makes me want to visit the city of Rome having envisage some of the places David Hewson talks about, some may not exist but others are definitely around the area of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, it would be nice to be able to soak up the atmosphere for real. A book that I very much enjoyed.
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