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The Seventh Sacrament - David Hewson


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The Seventh Sacrament - David Hewson

 
Description: ISBN 0330435957 / Author: David Hewson / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Publisher: Pan Books / 'There's an entire underground city down there ... more
The Seventh Sacrament - David Hewson ... ...houses and temples, entire streets. I talked to a couple of the cavers Leo called in. They hero-worshipped Giorgio. The man had been to places the rest of them could only dream about.' Giorgio Bramante, a Roman archaeology professor, was master of the hidden world beneath the earth until the day he lost his young son, Alessio, to a group of students intent on re-creating a centuries-old ritual to a long-banished god. His rage knew no bounds and, in a frenzy, he beat one of the students to death.Released from prison fourteen years later, Giorgio is bent upon a terrifying revenge on all those he blames for the loss of his son. Inspector Leo Falcone, a member of the original investigating team, is one of his targets. And Nic Costa, watching Falcone move relentlessly into the man's merciless grip, realizes the answer must lie in solving a cold case that, like the forgotten Alessio Bramante, has long been regarded as dead and buried for good. Praise for David Hewson: 'Very enjoyable Italian mysteries ...cleverly worked out and sharply written' - "Literary Review".

Newest Review: ... it: because, as befits a mystery novel (and particularly one with a strong operatic streak), certainly not everything is as ... more

 ... it seems. "The Seventh Sacrament" is a pretty compelling read, with pace, suspense, cliff-hangers in all the right places and multiple points of view which are easy to follow but make for added interest too. It's also decently written, without any major grating in dialogue or description. This is the fifth book in the Costa and Peroni series but can easily be read as a stand-alone novel. I haven't read the first four and had no difficulty in connecting to the characters and following the story. Of ...more

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Crowned Review The Seventh Sacrament - David Hewson: Roman Dungeons (794 words)
by - written on 25/03/08 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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A crime novel is often a vehicle for describing people and/or places. The ones that are set in familiar or iconic locations are usually the latter: crime readers relish Thorne's London, Rebus's Edinburgh and of course all these Italy-based, English-written crime stories by the likes of Magdalen Nabb, Donna Leon and, not least, David Hewson. In "The Seventh Sacrament" detectives Nic Costa (young, optimistic, personable) and Gianni Peroni (older, gruffer, bigger) and their boss Leo Falcone (the only one of the three with a developed character) are back in Rome after their exile in Venice and are investigating a series of murders. The murders originate ...  Read the complete review

 

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