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The Lizard's Bite
The Lizard's Bite
The Lizard's Bite
Audiobook13 hours

The Lizard's Bite

Written by David Hewson

Narrated by Saul Reichlin

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

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About this audiobook

On an August night on a small island near Venice, a fire explodes in a glassmaking shop. When help arrives, two people are dead, a rich Englishman is implicated, and investigators from Rome are assigned a case no one wants them to solve...

On their private island, the Arcangelo family defy the world: living in a decaying palazzo, making glass in a terrifying, archaic furnace, watching their absurd exhibition hall sink into disrepair. But now the world is coming to their dying outpost in a crumbling corner of a Venice that tourists never see. Police boats and vaporetti bring investigators, curiosity seekers, and one man who plans to own the property himself. With two family members consumed by the foundry fire, both mystery and opportunity have been bared to the bone.

On special assignment from Rome, Detective Nic Costa, along with his partner, his boss, and a dogged pathologist named Teresa Lupo, is getting in the way of progress, Venetian-style. They know that Uriel Arcangelo and his wife were murdered. They know that a predatory Englishman must be a suspect, as is the family of the murdered woman. And while everyone wants the Roman cops to give up and go home, they can't - because a matter of desire, death, and lies has just turned murderously on one of them...
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 1, 2006
ISBN9781846320415
The Lizard's Bite
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David Hewson

David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, The Sunday Times and the Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels including his Rome-based Nic Costa series which has been published in fifteen languages. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series, The Killing. He lives near Canterbury in Kent

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I enjoyed this book. Easy to read, likeable characters and a good ending. Another great from Mike Gayle.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Dave and Izzy are in their early 30s, happily married, living in London, and both working for different magazines. They hadn't planned on having children now, if ever, but when Izzy turns up pregnant, they are shocked, then thrilled. What follows is a roller coaster of events and emotions which leave both of them reeling. I can't say much more than that or I will spoil the book for those who want to read it. It is an original story with good writing, but I felt it got a little bizarre and unrealistic in the second half of the book so was somwhat of a letdown.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of my favourite authors, but definitely not one of my favourite books of his. I still read it in a single day. It's easy, fast-paced and natural-sounding. I just didn't connect well with the characters. I would have loved a bit more surrounding than there was, but everybody felt very real and there. Highly recommended.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of my favourite authors, but definitely not one of my favourite books of his. I still read it in a single day. It's easy, fast-paced and natural-sounding. I just didn't connect well with the characters. I would have loved a bit more surrounding than there was, but everybody felt very real and there. Highly recommended.