David Hewson Knihy

Bierce, bývalý policajt, je odsúdený za vraždu manželky a syna, ktorých údajne ubil na smrť kladivom. Na onen osudný deň si nepamätá - sám netuší, či je naozaj vinný. Dvadsaťtri rokov čaká v cele smrti na popravu. Krátko pred popravou ho náhle z nevysvetliteľných príčin prepustia. Svet navôkol v čase jeho väzby pulzoval aj bez neho a z mesta, ktoré poznal, sa stalo cudzie a nebezpečné miesto. Bierce stretne krásnu, živelnú poločíňanku Alice Loongovú, s ktorou začne objavovať mätúci svet dvadsiateho prvého storočia. Čoskoro však vyjde najavo, že Alice skrýva vlastné temné tajomstvá. Po objavení mŕtvoly priklincovanej na stĺp pred Bierceovým domom sa pár vydá na útek, prenasledovaný nebezpečnými nepriateľmi. Bierceovi sa darí skladať mozaiku útržkovitých informácií z rôznych strán a zábleskov spomienok, ktoré sa začínajú vracať: temné tajomstvo zavraždenej manželky, kompromitujúce videonahrávky, pochybný lokál s názvom Dračia sestra... Bierce začína tušiť, že ho prepustili, aby sa stal figúrkou v smrteľnej hre na mačku a myš.

A page-turning adaptation of the first season of the original Danish television series The Killing, from the author of the Detective Nic Costa series Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland, through the Pentecost Forest. The chill water, the fear, his presence not so far away . . . There is one torchlight on her now, the single blazing eye. And it is here. Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when 19-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nanna's family struggles to cope with their loss, local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall and the murder suddenly come to light, the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of 20 days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.

The acclaimed author of "A Season for the Dead" pens this "atmospheric follow-up steeped in dark ritual" ("Publishers Weekly"). Rome detective Nic Costa goes up against a bizarre and deadly cult to save an innocent young girl.

When Detective Nic Costa arrives on a murder scene, he isn't prepared for what he finds--nor for the ambush that causes his only witness to vanish. As the first murder leads to more grisly slayings, he uncovers a trail of deception that might lead to the U.S. government. Original.

On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve.

While Sara Farnese pours over ancient texts in the silent Vatican reading room, a brutal murder takes place in a nearby church. Suddenly a crazed man enters the Vatican carrying a bloodied bag and walks up to Sara's desk. Soon she is inextricably linked to a series of horrific and cunning murders, each one representative of the death of a martyr of the Church.

At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943.A  Times  Best Thriller Book of 2022The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice’s Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he’s waited his whole life to share.When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . .Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather’s when Paolo’s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city’s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can’t stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.

Florence, 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an English art student, and semi-retired detective Pino Fratelli. Their investigations lead them to the secret society that underpins the city: an elite underworld of violence, excess and desire.

It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark - a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realises that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed ..