The Sacred Cut

About the Author

DAVID HEWSON is a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times. The Sacred Cut is the third novel in a crime series that began with the acclaimed A Season for the Dead, set in Rome and featuring Detective Nic Costa. He is also the author of The Villa of Mysteries and Lucifer’s Shadow.

A former staff writer on The Times, he lives in Kent, where he is at work on the fourth Nic Costa crime novel, The Lizard’s Bite, which Delacorte Press will publish in 2006.