A Season for the Dead

The first in David Hewson's highly acclaimed Rome-based thriller series featuring Detective Nic Costa.

Whilst Sara Farnese pours over ancient texts in the silent Vatican reading room, a brutal murder is taking place in a nearby church. Then suddenly a crazed man enters the Vatican carrying a bloodied bag. He walks up to Sara's desk. He has something he would like her to see . . .When a young woman turns up dead near the banks of the River Tiber, pathologist Teresa Lupo believes she has the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. So begins an investigation that will take Nic Costa and his team deep into the dark underworld of modern-day Rome's most disturbing and sinister secrets.