David Hewson Books in Order

Art historian Michael Hogarth is sent to track down a lost twelfth-century Chinese painting for a wealthy client. What begins as an art hunt turns into a far riskier search for the truth behind the commission.

A beginner-friendly introduction to desktop publishing, explaining the basic tools and ideas behind page layout and print production. It is aimed at readers learning the craft from the ground up.

A hands-on guide to QuarkXPress, walking readers through the software and the practical problems of designing pages on screen. Useful for newcomers to desktop publishing workflows.

A regional guide to East Anglia, bringing together local history, travel advice, and suggestions for exploring the area. Useful for readers planning a trip or getting their bearings.

A practical travel guide to Granada and eastern Andalucia, covering places to see, local context, and how to get around the region. It is built for readers who want orientation as well as atmosphere.

A concise guide to Mallorca for travelers who want both practical advice and a sense of the island beyond the obvious stops. It aims to make planning and exploring easier.

A practical handbook for people planning a move to Spain, covering the everyday questions that come with starting over abroad. Hewson focuses on the realities behind the dream.

A travel guide to Seville and western Andalusia, with useful background on the area's cities, culture, and major sights. Hewson balances practical help with a feel for place.

A travel guide to Wessex that helps readers navigate the region's landscape, towns, and history. Designed as a practical companion rather than a glossy souvenir.

This dual-timeline thriller moves between drug-fueled California in the 1970s and the release of a damaged killer years later. Old crimes, buried guilt, and the truth about a stolen child slowly rise to the surface.

During Holy Week in Seville, a string of killings draws visiting academic Maria Gutierrez into the center of the investigation. The crimes reach back toward the Civil War, and her insight puts her in danger too.

A high-tech thriller built around solar research, climate fear, and a weaponized satellite called Sundog. As systems fail and cities burn, Michael Lieberman is forced to stop a catastrophe wired into the modern world itself.

American newcomer Alison Fenway moves to a Kent village and thinks she sees something terrible in a bonfire ceremony. As the seasons turn, local customs and neighborly charm start to look like a mask for something much darker.

Set in Venice, this standalone mystery follows the city's beauty down into older, darker layers of history. Hewson mixes art, buried secrets, and present-day danger in a story where the past will not stay quiet.

A savage murder near the Vatican drags young detective Nic Costa into a case where faith, fear, and old secrets meet. Protecting scholar Sara Farnese becomes as urgent as catching the killer.

A body by the Tiber looks like the victim of an ancient ritual, but Teresa Lupo quickly realizes the horror is new. Nic Costa follows the trail into modern Rome, where the violence is very much alive.

During a Roman blizzard, a young woman's body is found mutilated inside the Pantheon. Before Nic Costa can work the case, American agents arrive and make it clear some truths are meant to stay hidden.

Exiled to Venice, Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni are told to close an apparent murder-suicide fast. Instead they uncover lies inside Murano's glassmaking world, where money and influence matter more than truth.

In this collaborative thriller, conceived and framed by Deaver, former war‑crimes investigator Harold Middleton acquires a rare Chopin score that others are willing to kill for. What seems like a music‑lover’s treasure pulls him into a global chase involving old secrets, new threats and a conspiracy with deadly reach.

A murdered Louvre expert and a newly surfaced Caravaggio pull Nic Costa into one of his most personal cases. The killer is visible. Getting near him is the hard part, especially with a powerful cult shielding his every move.

After twenty-three years on death row, former cop Bierce is suddenly released with no memory of the crime that destroyed his family. Teaming up with Alice Loong, he races to learn why powerful enemies still want him silenced.

A professor whose young son vanished in Rome's catacombs is released from prison and starts hunting the people he blames. As old witnesses die, Nic Costa and Leo Falcone are forced back into a case that never healed.

A glittering Rome premiere turns sinister when Dante's death mask is swapped for something grotesque and a star is threatened. Nic Costa follows the trail through celebrity culture, old texts, and staged terror.

Harold Middleton and the Volunteers return when a terrorist plot involving “heavy water” and a mysterious copper bracelet threatens to ignite conflict in South Asia. As different thriller authors take turns advancing the story, Middleton races across continents to identify a faceless mastermind known only as the Scorpion.

A ritual murder during a G8 summit suggests the return of the Blue Demon, an old terrorist legend from Rome's past. Nic Costa must work through political pressure, false history, and a killer using Etruscan symbols to spread fear.

Teresa Lupo heads to Venice to find her missing aunt and walks straight into a strange carnival puzzle of letters, stories, and masked menace. The search turns into a dark tour of the city's art, memory, and hidden lives.

Mary Mackenzie arrives in Rome as companion to an elderly employer and finds herself haunted by a painting of Judith and Holofernes. This darkly funny short tale asks what happens when a lifetime of submission starts to crack.

Hewson and A.J. Hartley recast Shakespeare's play as a dark historical thriller, where war hero Macbeth and his wife Skena are pushed toward a terrible bid for power. Prophecy matters, but so do politics, marriage, and the cost of trying to hold a kingdom together.

Part local history, part campaign memoir, this book tells how the Kent village of Wye fought a huge development plan and won. Hewson follows the politics, pressure, and community effort behind a rare planning victory.

When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death in Rome, Nic Costa senses the accident story will not hold. His inquiry leads into a damaged family and an older crime that still casts a shadow over the present.

A practical guide to using Scrivener as a tool for building, organizing, and finishing a novel. Hewson explains how to manage scenes, research, notes, and structure without losing sight of the story.

Gianni Peroni notices something odd about two bodies pulled from the Tiber: the victims are wearing exactly the same mismatched socks. That small detail starts a short Roman mystery with a dry, Peroni-shaped edge.

On the eve of leaving Copenhagen, Sarah Lund is forced to stay when nineteen-year-old Nanna Birk Larsen is found murdered. The investigation cuts through a grieving family, city-hall politics, and a city growing colder by the day.

A plainspoken guide to planning, starting, and finishing a novel, built around the practical problems writers actually face. Hewson focuses on structure, viewpoint, research, revision, and how to keep a book moving.

Florence, 1986. An attack on a church fresco draws art student Julia Wellbeloved and semi-retired detective Pino Fratelli into a case shaped by secret societies, old damage, and the memory of the city's great flood.

A woman is found brutally posed at a war memorial, pulling Sarah Lund back into homicide work she tried to leave behind. The case opens into Afghanistan, military secrets, and a political class desperate to control the story.

This prose retelling opens up Shakespeare's tragedy into a full political thriller, with Hamlet trapped between grief, court intrigue, and looming war with Norway. Ophelia, Young Yorick, and the wider court all get room to breathe as murder closes in.

Haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter, ex-detective Pieter Vos is pulled back into police work when another girl goes missing. A doll's house in the Rijksmuseum may hold the key to both cases.

Sarah Lund faces a dockside murder, a kidnapped billionaire's daughter, and a case that reaches into politics and old abuse. As the financial crisis bites, every clue seems tied to people with the power to bury it.

Created directly for audio, this full‑cast drama follows war‑crimes investigator Harold Middleton as he tracks the flow of illicit fuel money and a shadowy figure called Starling. With cinematic sound and quick scene changes, the story delivers Deaver’s twists through performances instead of pages.

A terror attack during Amsterdam's Sinterklaas parade leaves one child missing, but the kidnappers have taken the wrong girl. Pieter Vos and Laura Bakker chase a case that runs from the red-light district to the security services.

Hewson retells Shakespeare's lovers as a fast-moving historical thriller set in late medieval Verona. Juliet is sharper, Romeo more restless, and the family feud still drives them toward desperate choices.

Ten years after two sisters were blamed for killing a pop singer, they vanish on the day of their release from a Dutch psychiatric institution. Pieter Vos and Laura Bakker reopen an old scandal and uncover a cover-up that never really ended.

When a young market worker is found barely alive in an Amsterdam graveyard, Pieter Vos and Laura Bakker connect her case to the earlier Sleeping Beauty murders. The hunt leads them through the city's markets, margins, and dangerous blind spots.

A pregnant clerk riding London's Circle line finds her routine shattered when a young man with a wired rucksack charges toward Westminster. Hewson turns an everyday commute into a short, sharp thriller.

Nic Costa goes undercover inside the Calabrian mafia when a feared boss known as the Ghost offers to turn state's witness. Deep in 'Ndrangheta country, one mistake could destroy the case and everyone working it.

District Sheriff Tristan Haraldsen and his wife, Elsebeth, move to a remote Faroese village expecting peace, then two boys vanish during a whale hunt. The search uncovers older disappearances and the dark loyalties of an isolated island community.

A washed-up writer retreats to a decaying house on a Venetian island, only to be forced back into the true-crime case that made his name. The deeper he digs into the past, the more he suspects his success was built on a lie.

Fifteen-year-old Nico receives a manuscript from his dying grandfather and discovers a hidden story from Nazi-occupied Venice. As he reads about Paolo's youth, a murdered Jewish woman, and the resistance, family history becomes something far more dangerous.

Retired archivist Arnold Clover is asked to help after TV historian Marmaduke Godolphin is killed in Venice in a way that echoes a Medici-era murder. Solving the modern crime means untangling a much older one.

Arnold Clover helps Lizzie Hawker sort out a crumbling Venetian palazzo, a vanished mother, and a missing portrait of Lucrezia Borgia. When a body appears in a hidden crypt, the family mystery turns lethal.

This official prequel follows a young Julien Baptiste in 1976, sent to a corrupt French town after a girl disappears. He thinks he has the right man, until a looming guillotine forces him to question the whole case.

In the tense summer of 1940, journalist Jessica Marshall and wounded ex-detective Louis Renard investigate a murder in Dover as invasion fears mount. The deeper they dig, the more the town's war nerves start to look like cover.

A dead music impresario, a cryptic clue, and a possible original score of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons pull Arnold Clover into another Venetian puzzle. As he tries to prove what is real, the killings start to follow the music.

In a sweltering August Venice, Arnold Clover is drawn into the death of a woman he knew and a mystery that leads through Dorsoduro's quieter corners. The case mixes recent violence with the city's long memory.