Book description
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 ... David Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He
worked as staff writer on The Times
from 1978, and has written several novels, as well as a number of
travel books. He is now a weekly columnist for The
Sunday Times
. Following A Season for the Dead
, The Villa of Mysteries
is the second in his Italian crime series featuring Detective Nic
Costa. The author lives in Kent.
