David Hewson (author)

For other people of the same name, see David Hewson (disambiguation).
David Hewson
Born (1953-01-09) 9 January 1953
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Period 1985–present
Genre Crime, Mystery
Website
www.davidhewson.com

David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, has now been contracted to run to At least nine instalments by British, American, European and Asian publishers. The author'S debut novel, Shanghai Thunder, was published by Robert Hale, In the United Kingdom, In 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries, and has been Reissued. His second book was set In Spain during Holy Week and won the W H Smith Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels of 1996. Its film adaptation, released In 2002, was also titled Semana santa. Apart from that He has written a number of standalone novels, including Lucifer'S Shadow and The Promised Land, and As well the second chapter of the audio serial novel The Chopin Manuscript started by Jeffery Deaver, with Lee Child and 13 other Cowriters, for the audiobook site Audible.com. Hewson write three novels each based upon the three series of the Danish TV series The Killing.

Hewson left school at 17 and joined a local newspaper in the north of England. He was later a news, business and foreign reporter for The Times, and features editor of The Independent when it was launched in 1986. He served as a board member of International Thriller Writers Inc. for four years until 2009.[1]

Novels

Nic Costa-series

Anthologies

Non-fiction

Awards

In 2008, Hewson and narrator Saul Reichlin won the prize for best unabridged audiobook in the UK[3] for The Seventh Sacrament. In 2009 the sixth Nic Costa novel, The Garden of Evil, won the American Library Association's best genre fiction reading list award for mystery.[4]

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