by David Hewson · tapa dura · ISBN 9781405000499
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«The Sacred Cut» is the mystery and suspense novel by David Hewson, published by MacMillan in hardcover (320 pages, in English).
In a Rome blocked by a historic snowfall, a young woman is found dead in the Pantheon with a mutilated back. Agents Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni investigate, but the FBI wants to close the case as soon as possible. The wounds refer to Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and to a conspiracy whose true scope only two people know.
This novel belongs to the Nic Costa series, of which it is the third installment, and was published in 2005.
For readers of mystery and suspense, especially those who enjoy police plots set in Rome and references to Renaissance art.
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.
