Dell
June 2007
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Featuring: Nic Costa; Gianni Peroni
528 pages ISBN: 0440243009 EAN: 9780440243007 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
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....In this spellbinding new novel featuring
Detective Nic Costa, author David Hewson weaves together
the rich fabric of Europe’s most beguiling city with a
riveting tale of passion, corruption, and the poisonous
bite of betrayal.
On their private island, the
Arcangelo family defy the world: living in a decaying
palazzo, making glass in a terrifying, archaic furnace,
watching their absurd exhibition hall sink into disrepair.
But now the world is coming to their dying outpost in a
crumbling corner of a Venice that tourists never see.
Police boats and vaporetti bring investigators, curiosity
seekers, and one man who plans to own the property
himself. With two family members consumed by the foundry
fire, both mystery and opportunity have been bared to the
bone.
On special assignment from Rome, Detective
Nic Costa, along with his partner, his boss, and a dogged
pathologist named Teresa Lupo, is getting in the way of
progress, Venetian-style. They know that Uriel Arcangelo
and his wife were murdered. They know that a predatory
Englishman must be a suspect, as is the family of the
murdered woman. And while everyone wants the Roman cops to
give up and go home, they can’t–because a matter of
desire, death, and lies has just turned murderously on one
of them....
A tale as bewitching as its lush
backdrop, The Lizard’s Bite is an astounding
alchemy of superb writing, vibrant atmosphere, and sheer,
gripping suspense.
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