The Villa of Mysteries
基本信息·出版社：Pan Books ·页码：320 页 ·出版日期：2005年02月 ·ISBN：0330493655 ·条形码：9780330493659 ·装帧：平装 ·丛书名：Nic Costa · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Pan Books
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2005年02月
·ISBN：0330493655
·条形码：9780330493659
·装帧：平装
·丛书名：Nic Costa
·外文书名：神秘別墅
内容简介 When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa, a maverick pathologist, thinks she's got the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She's wrong. Leo Falcone, the chief inspector, knows this case is recent history and the horror is still very much alive. So begins an investigation that will take the police deep into the dark underworld of modern day Rome's most disturbing and sinister secrets. Nic Costa is trying to stay off the drink. Gianni Peroni used to work vice until he was caught in one of his own department's stings. Emilio Neri, the local mafia boss, can't trust his own son and Vergil Wallis, the American mobster, is refusing to talk. Meanwhile, someone is trying very hard to kill the pathologist. And now another beautiful young woman has gone missing ...
作者简介 David Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and lives in Kent. 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. His Rome-based Nic Costa series has been widely praised.
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Synopsis When a young woman turns up dead in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber, Teresa, a maverick pathologist, thinks she''s got the victim of an ancient Roman ritual on her hands. She''s wrong. Leo Falcone, the chief inspector, knows this case is recent history and the horror is still very much alive. So begins an investigation that will take the police deep into the dark underworld of modern day Rome''s most disturbing and sinister secrets. Nic Costa is trying to stay off the drink. Gianni Peroni used to work vice until he was caught in one of his own department''s stings. Emilio Neri, the local mafia boss, can''t trust his own son and Vergil Wallis, the American mobster, is refusing to talk. Meanwhile, someone is trying very hard to kill the pathologist. And now another beautiful young woman has gone missing ...
