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Also by David Hewson:

The Flood, October 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Macbeth, June 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Dante's Numbers, April 2009
Hardcover
The Garden Of Evil, August 2008
Hardcover
The Lizard's Bite, June 2007
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Seventh Sacrament, January 2007
Hardcover
The Lizard's Bite, November 2006
Hardcover
The Sacred Cut, September 2006
Paperback
The Sacred Cut, December 2005
Hardcover
The Villa of Mysteries, September 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Lucifer's Shadow, April 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
A Season for the Dead, January 2004
Paperback (reprint)

THE VILLA OF MYSTERIES
By: David Hewson

Dell
September 2005
On Sale: September 6, 2005
Featuring: Nic Costa; Teresa Lupo
480 pages
ISBN: 0440242371
EAN: 9780440242376
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Police Procedural | Thriller Psychological

In Rome’s crowded Campo dei Fiori, a woman rushes up to two carabinieri lounging in their sunglasses and uniforms, insisting that her sixteen-year-old daughter has just been abducted. Detective Nic Costa sees the scene unfold and intervenes. Because Costa knows what the two officers don’t: that in the morgue at Rome’s police headquarters, a forensic pathologist is examining the strange, mummified corpse of another girl, whose disappearance and death bear haunting similarities….

Police pathologist Teresa Lupo is Nic’s colleague, friend, and his only equal when it comes to breaking the rules to get results, whatever the cost. Now, after years of living with the dead, Teresa insists that her superiors move quickly to save a life. Poring over the body of the girl in the morgue, she has found too many similarities between the girls, including a unique, leering tattoo. Lupo is sure that the vanished girl is headed for a bizarre ancient Bacchanalia involving virgins and sacrificial murder–a ritual that is only days away.

As Nic and Teresa claw at the case from two sides–and as Nic finds himself at once puzzled and beguiled by the missing girl’s seductive mother–a chilling picture is beginning to emerge…of secret relationships and sexual depravity, organized crime and unimaginable corruption. With the clock ticking down on a young girl’s life, Nic and Teresa are about to make the most horrifying discovery of all–in a pit of human darkness, where an age-old malevolence still endures, evil has consumed innocence…and a very modern vengeance has begun.