基本信息出版社：Pan Books; New Ed edition
页码：474 页
出版日期：2004年08月
ISBN：0330493639
条形码：9780330493635
装帧：平装
开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
丛书名：Nic Costa
外文书名：死亡季节
内容简介 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.... Soon Sara us inextricably linked to a series of horrific and cunning murders, each one representative of the death of a martyr of the Church. Into this climate enter Detectives Costa and Rossi, enlisted to track down the killer, and to protect Sara from the horrors he is capable of. It seems that at any time she could be the next chosen sacrifice.... --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
作者简介 David Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and lives in Kent. He was a journalist from the age of seventeen, working most recently for the Sunday Times. He has also written several novels, as well as a number of travel books. His Rome-based Nic Costa series has been widely praised.
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From Publishers Weekly
U.K. novelist and journalist Hewson (Solstice) presents the first in a line of thrillers set in Italy and features detective Nic Costa and an ensemble cast drawn from the ranks of the Rome state police. University professor Sara Farnese is at her desk in the Reading Room of the Vatican Library perusing a 10th-century copy of Apicius''s first-century cookbook De Re Coquinaria when former lover and fellow university professor Stefano Rinaldi careens into the room dragging a large plastic bag. Rinaldi dumps the contents of the bagâ€"the freshly flayed skin of an adult maleâ€"and quotes the Christian theologian, Tertullian ("The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church"), then takes a couple of bullets in the head from a panic-stricken Swiss Guard. Detective Costa and partner Luca Rossi are outside the Vatican in St. Peter''s Square on pickpocket patrol when they catch the news of the shooting on a police scanner, charge into the Reading Room and are quickly kicked out by security man Brendan Hanrahan for jurisdictional reasons ("The Vatican is another country"). Rossi and Costa become officially involved when the skinless remains of Sara''s lover and the body of Rinaldi''s wife are found strung up in an ancient Roman church. After this rousing beginning, the intricate plot spins off in several directions, involving corrupt cardinal Michael Denney, the Mafia, Vatican secrecy and the serial killer who''s murdering Sara''s former lovers in ways that mimic famous paintings depicting the martyrdom of selected saints. Outsized, eccentric characters, a complex story and an abundance of historical detail make this engrossing book more than just another cookie-cutter, religious-nut serial killer thriller.
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Review
"Richly enjoyable, sophisticated and beguiling entertainment."
--Sunday Times
"Keeps the reader guessing...relentlessly tightening the suspense until the end."
--Daily Telegraph?
"Engrossing... a complex story and an abundance of historical detail."
--Publishers Weekly
"An idealistic detective ... Likeable Nic exudes series potential."
--Kirkus Reviews
From the Hardcover edition. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.