Segui un giovane e acuto detective che si muove tra le vibranti e complesse strade di Roma. Ogni caso che affronta lo porta più a fondo nel ventre nascosto della città, svelando i suoi segreti e le intricate reti criminali. Questa serie offre un'emozionante esplorazione della capitale italiana attraverso la lente di avvincenti indagini. È un viaggio nella giustizia, nella natura umana e nel fascino duraturo di una delle città più storiche del mondo.
While Sara Farnese pours over ancient texts in the silent Vatican reading room, a brutal murder takes place in a nearby church. Suddenly a crazed man enters the Vatican carrying a bloodied bag and walks up to Sara's desk. Soon she is inextricably linked to a series of horrific and cunning murders, each one representative of the death of a martyr of the Church.
The acclaimed author of "A Season for the Dead" pens this "atmospheric follow-up steeped in dark ritual" ("Publishers Weekly"). Rome detective Nic Costa goes up against a bizarre and deadly cult to save an innocent young girl.
When Detective Nic Costa arrives on a murder scene, he isn't prepared for what he finds--nor for the ambush that causes his only witness to vanish. As the first murder leads to more grisly slayings, he uncovers a trail of deception that might lead to the U.S. government. Original.
On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve.
When a former archaeology professor is released from jail bent upon revenge, Detective Nic Costa of the Rome Questura faces the revival of a cold case which his colleague Inspector Leo Falcone first tackled as a mid-ranking officer years before
The sixth novel in Hewson's riveting Italian crime series
The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial new film, Inferno. But at the grand unveiling this priceless artifact is replaced by a macabre death mask of the film's star, Allan Prime. Nic Costa and his team follow the movie to its next showing in San Francisco where confusing new clues suggest that there is more behind the killing than a crazed Dante fan.
Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake a group of dead students, a murdered couple, a cryptic message and a kidnapped child. Now, the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered, seemingly by a strange young man dressed as an Etruscan god, detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved. The Blue Demon appear to have returned - and planning, under the leadership of the fanatical Andrea Petrakis, to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks on the city. As Costa and his team start to dig deeper into the past, they find that there are still too many unanswered questions – and much more to the history of the Blue Demon than anyone wants to admit...
Family tragedy, family legacy, family secrets - Detective Nic Costa faces his hardest case yet.
Nic Costa has been sent undercover to the Calabrian coast to bring in the head of the feared 'Ndrangheta. But the deception is taking its toll. Out of their depth in a lawless part of Italy, Costa and his team find themselves pitched as much against one another as the mob. Is Nic getting too close to the enemy for comfort?