The Lizard's Bite - Hardcover

Hewson, David

3.79

985 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405050179 ISBN 13: 9781405050173

Publisher: Macmillan, 2006

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Things are looking up for Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni – their humiliating exile in Venice is nearly at an end, and their long-awaited holiday is about to begin. So when they are ordered to investigate an apparently open-and-shut case, a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives, all they want is to wrap it up quickly.

However, as they dig more deeply into the insular glass-making region of Murano and the strange Arcangeli family, things don’t quite add up. Under pressure from above to finish quickly so that urbane British millionaire Hugo Massiter’s property deal can be concluded, events spiral quickly out of control with devastating consequences . . .

When they realise that the only verdict the local police are interested in is accidental death and a speedily closed file, Costa and Peroni find themselves embroiled in a clandestine and dangerous investigation into the shadowy world that lies beneath Venice’s sparkling fa�ade – and where the usual rules do not apply.

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Review:

"Wonderfully complex and finely paced.... Newcomers as well as [Nic Costa] series fans will be enthralled."--"Publishers Weekly," starred review "Part spaghetti Western, part buddy movie ... and more engaging than a Venetian sunset."--"Rocky Mountain News" "From the Hardcover edition."

Book Description:

The fourth novel in Hewson's atmospherically beguiling Italian crime series

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