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David Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He worked as staff writer on The Times from 1978, and has written several novels, as well as a number of travel books. He is now a weekly columnist for The Sunday Times . Following A Season for the Dead, The Villa of Mysteries is the second in his Italian crime series featuring Detective Nic Costa. The author lives in Kent.
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- PublisherPan
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0330493655
- ISBN 13 9780330493659
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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