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The Seventh Sacrament (Nic Costa) (Hardcover)

by David Hewson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan; First Edition edition (19 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405050225
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405050227
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 392,648 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Costa, Peroni and Leo Falcone are rebuilding their lives. But they team up once again when faced with the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a missing young boy’s T-shirt in a small museum exhibit displaying supposed evidence of communication from souls in Purgatory.

Soon they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving both the ancient cult of Mithras and a sinister ossuary, the House of Bones . . .

Praise for David Hewson's previous novels:

'Better written and more sophisticated than Dan Brown’s phenomenal bestseller . . . great stuff!' Washington Post

'Built with pleasing symmetry . . . Hewson can dress a stage with operatic panache, and here his mise-en-scène is spectacular . . . In the previous books the killings, despite their savagery, have theatrical flair and are put to vivid use in fascinating lectures on Italian art and history’ New York Times

‘Elegant . . . solid writing and multidimensional characters command attention from start to finish of this smart, literate thriller’ Publishers Weekly



About the Author

David Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He was a journalist from the age of seventeen, working most recently for the Sunday Times. He has also written several novels, as well as a number of travel books. The Seventh Sacrament is the fifth in his Italian crime series featuring Detective Nic Costa. The author lives in Kent.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear: sensational title, but rather boring content, 5 May 2007
By Klaus van Amelrode "kmcva" - See all my reviews
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The Seventh SACRAMENT centers around Giorgio Bramante, an archaeologist with an obsession for the subterranean, and one element of it in particular: Mithraic temples which were usually built beneath the earth to begin with. Bramante is an expert - as much as one can be - on the cult of Mithras which was wiped out when the empire adopted Christianity as Rome's sole religion when Constantine won the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.

This is the fifth book in the Costa and Peroni series but can easily be read as a stand-alone novel. I have not t read the first four but one has no problems to follow the story. However I found it a bit of odd that the book starts with two pages explaining the main characters and their occupations. Not a good start and in deed the book- in spite its sensational title - turns out to be a disappointment. The story never takes off, no pace, any real suspense and the plot is pretty disappointing. I found it boring and dragging on and on.

The description of Rome is, however, the main attraction. Hewson does really well in this department bringing the city to life in an admirable way. One feels that he just loves the city. But, this is for me only added value which can not counterbalance the main issue: This is supposed to be a great mystery story and not a travel guide for Rome.

Henson says that he invents from a basis of truth. I wish he would have invented a bit more and in a more gripping way. So all in all, this is a nice try but in the end not to be recommended.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good, 19 Mar 2007
By Dodgy B'Stard (Fuengirola,Spain) - See all my reviews
Compared to the other books written by David Hewson, I found this one rather lost its way half way through and became boring. It is fair to say that it picked up the pace again later, but, for me, this was the least enjoyable of the Nic Costa mysteries so far.
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5 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fifth in the Nic Costa Series, 26 Oct 2007
By J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Seventh Sacrament (Nic Costa) (Paperback)
David Hewson is a weekly columnist for the Sunday times. As well as several novels he has also found the time to write a number of travel books. He lives in Kent.

David Hewson's books can, to some people appear to be extremely violent, some would say gratuitously so, but his books are after all thrillers and this one is up there with the best of them. I am sure that if this type of book is not your cup of tea, you will not buy it. For those who like a travelogue as well as a thriller the book open in Rome where Nic Costa and his cronies have returned from Venice. They are soon involved in another mystery surrounding fresh bloodstains on the shirt of a small boy who has gone missing. To go any deeper into the storyline would spoil it for the reader.

The author's love of foreign places is evident by the number of travel books he has written and this comes through in the background to his books. Maybe it is my imagination but having them take place in Rome and Venice etc. makes them that much more readable than say London or Manchester.
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