In a hushed Vatican Reading Room, the scene is shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with a gruesome calling card from their killer. ...
 

Allan Prime looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the blood-soaked tip reached his head ...

The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial new film, Inferno . But at ...
 

The eighth stunning novel in David Hewson's acclaimed crime series set in modern Rome

Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Butteri committed a series of bizarre crimes evoking the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in ...
 

In the ancient burial ground of San Michele on an island off Venice, a young woman's casket is prised open, an object wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary story begins. Young academic Daniel Forster arrives in Venice working for the ...
 

The picture possessed a frightful beauty, one which burned so brightly that, once witnessed, could never be unseen...

In a hidden studio in Rome, an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings that ...
 

Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then on one sunny day in July his wife and their young son were savagely beaten to death. Bierce was convicted of their murders. Languishing on Death Row twenty-three years later, he still has ...