The Seventh Sacrament (Nic Costa)

by Hewson (Author)

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  Unabridged
  2007

  $3.36

  The Seventh Sacrament is the fifth in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson's detective novels of love and death in Italy.

  There's an entire underground city down there . . . 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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.54

  Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Costa, Peroni and Leo Falcone are rebuilding their lives. But they team up once again when faced with the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a missing young boy's T-shirt in a small museum exhibit displaying supposed evidence of communication from souls in Purgatory.

  Soon they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving both the ancient cult of Mithras and a sinister ossuary, the House of Bones . . .

  Praise for David Hewson's previous novels:

  'Better written and more sophisticated than Dan Brown's phenomenal bestseller . . . great stuff!' Washington Post

  'Built with pleasing symmetry . . . Hewson can dress a stage with operatic panache, and here his mise-en-scene is spectacular . . . In the previous books the killings, despite their savagery, have theatrical flair and are put to vivid use in fascinating lectures on Italian art and history' New York Times

  `Elegant . . . The novel seems headed for Dan Brown territory, but Hewson's clever puzzle remains just that, a tantalizing challenge . . . solid writing and multidimensional characters command attention from start to finish of this smart, literate thriller' Publishers Weekly