The Medici Murders

The Medici Murders

By David Hewson

Genre:-Crime Fiction

Pages:-288

Publisher:-Canongate

Blurb:-Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today.

 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two hired killers.

 Today, Marmaduke Godolphin, British TV historian and a man even fewer will miss, is stabbed by a stiletto blade on the exact same spot, his body dropping into the canal.

 Can the story of the first murder explain the attack on Godolphin? The Carabinieri certainly think so. They recruit retired archivist Arnold Clover to unpick the mystery and to help solve the case. But the conspiracy against Godolphin runs deeper than anyone imagined.

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My review:-This is Book One in "A Venetian Mystery" The book begins with the death of Marmaduke Godolphin a well respected British TV historian. He was found murdered in the canals of Venice, he was stabbed with a stiletto blade. Who could of murdered him? 

 Arnold Clover is a widower who has retired to Venice for a quiet life. He did know Marmaduke from Cambridge University, and remembers the "Golden Circle."

There is so much I could say about this story, but I don't want to spoil it for you.

Author:-

David Hewson's novels have been translated into a wide range of languages, from Italian to Japanese, and his debut work, Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino.

 David was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and left school at the age of seventeen to work as a cub reporter on one of the smallest evening newspapers in the country in Scarborough, Eight years later he was a staff reporter on The Times in London, covering news, business and latterly working as arts correspondent. He worked on the launch of the Independent and was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times for a decade before giving up journalism entirely in 2005 to focus on writing fiction.