David Hewson
Acclaimed author David Hewson returns with this mesmerizing new thriller featuring Nic Costa and the detectives of Romeâ€™s Questura. This time Costa must solve a case with roots buried deep in one of the ancient cityâ€™s most infamous episodesâ€”a story of incest, murder, and martyrdom. ,Itâ€™s August in Rome, and Nic Costaâ€™s vacation is about to be cut short by a scream, a girl covered in blood, and a man lying dead in the Via Beatrice Cenci. It seems that Malise Gabriel, a scholar with an impressive list of enemies, stepped onto faulty scaffolding for a cigarette and fell to his death.Â  ,On the surface, itâ€™s no more than an unfortunate accident.Â  ,But the deeper Costa looksâ€”into the facts that donâ€™t add up, into the haunted eyes of Gabrielâ€™s beautiful daughter, Mina, and into the mysterious links between the present and the pastâ€”the more heâ€™s haunted by disturbing parallels with a centuries-old crime: In 1599, Beatrice Cenci was beheaded by the Vatican for murdering her father, a man known for unthinkable sexual crimes. Does Minaâ€™s obsession with Beatrice intimate her own familyâ€™s dark secrets, or is someone using her as a smoke screen for a far deadlier plan?,Soon another body is discovered and Nic comes to doubt his own first impressions. Something evil is circling Mina, her angry and silent mother, her runaway brother, and her familyâ€™s checkered history in England, the United States, and Italy. And now that something is closing in fast for the kill.,In a novel that captures modern Rome in all its complexity, as well as its history of beauty and barbarity, genius and blindness, ,The Fallen Angel, is David Hewson at his bestâ€”a twisting and twisted contest between innocence and evil.
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The Fallen Angel