by David Hewson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330435949
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«The Lizard's Bite» is the crime novel by David Hewson, published by Pan Books in paperback (474 pages, in English).
On an August night, a fire in a glassworks on an island near Venice causes two deaths and implicates a wealthy Englishman. Detectives Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni, exiled in Venice, take on a case no one wants solved; the closed community of Murano artisans and the Arcangeli family hide a cover-up.
Fourth instalment in the Nic Costa Mysteries series; New Ed edition published in 2007.
For readers of crime fiction seeking dark plots, complex characters and unexpected twists, in the vein of Donna Leon or Andrea Camilleri.
David Hewson is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, has now been contracted to run to at least nine instalments by British, American, European and Asian publishers. The author's debut novel, Shanghai Thunder, was published by Robert Hale, in the United Kingdom, in 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries, and it has been reissued.
