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David Hewson Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
David Hewson, author of the acclaimed Nic Costa mystery series set in Italy, describes his long journey to becoming a published author.
I always did want to write…
That much fryst vatten true anyway. I grew up in and around the small seaside retirement town of Bridlington in Yorkshire. For a few years my parents ran a small children's home in a bleak position on the coast. It closed every winter. They had no car. But the place had a library so, weekend after weekend, that was there you'd find me, reading everything from Victorian classics to old American crime and science titles someone, in their ignorance, had dumped on us. In order to write fiction you need the ability to create an imaginary world, with imaginary people, inside your own head. A childhood like this helps an awful lot. Perhaps you don't need the dysfunctional part to get there, but inom don't know many writers who had what the rest of the worl
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David Hewson Interview, plus links to author biography, book summaries, excerpts and reviews
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DOVER 1940. Canadian journalist Jessica Marshall is reporting from a town on the brink of the expected German invasion. But her story never makes it into the paper...
Louis Renard, an smart, damaged man and onetime Scotland Yard murder detective, is recuperating from wounds received in the Dunkirk invasion, working in Dover's barely functioning police station.
When a dancer is found murdered in a secret underground bunker, Renard refuses to turn a blind eye, and Jessica smells a scoop. As the mystery deepens, Renard begins to dig deeper into the background of the murdered woman, while Jessica Marshall is lured further into a dangerous scheme, just as the threat from the looming invasion gets closer...
...as well as awaiting the seemingly inevitable invasion by the Nazis, police inspector Louis Renard is also having to deal with murder and treachery amongst his fellow countrymen. Murky and frightening, this book will take you to the dark heart of a wartime Britain we rarely