David Hewson divides his time between home in Kent and work and pleasure in Italy. He left school at seventeen to become a cub reporter on the Scarborough Evening News. Over the following two decades he worked for The Times, The Independent and The Sunday Times as a journalist.

His first novel, Semana Santa (now reissued as Death in Seville), appeared in 1995 and was later turned into a film with Mira Sorvino. Since then he has written more than thirty novels set in locations across the world.

After writing eleven books set in Italy — nine featuring the young Roman detective Nic Costa — he moved to Copenhagen for three adaptations of The Killing. Then to Amsterdam with Pieter Vos, a detective who lives on the Prinsengracht canal.

In 2011, with A.J. Hartley, he began writing audiobook adaptations: Macbeth: A Novel narrated by Alan Cumming, then Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, both narrated by Richard Armitage.

In 2021 came The Garden of Angels, a panoramic story moving from the Nazi occupation of Venice to the present day. Since 2022, a new series set in Venice features Arnold Clover, a retired archivist who investigates alongside Bruno, his dachshund. The most recent is The Devil in Dorsoduro.

He lives near Canterbury, in Kent.

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