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David Hewson (born 9 January 1953) is a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, has now been contracted to run to at least nine instalments by British, American, European and Asian publishers. The author's debut novel, Shanghai Thunder, was published by Robert Hale, in the United Kingdom, in 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries, and it has been reissued.

His second book was set in Spain during Holy Week and won the W H Smith Fresh Talent prize for one of the best first novels of 1996. Its film adaptation, released In 2002, was also titled Semana santa. Apart from that he has written a number of standalone novels, including Lucifer's Shadow and The Promised Land, and as well the second chapter of the audio serial novel The Chopin Manuscript started by Jeffery Deaver, with Lee Child and 13 other co-writers, for the audiobook site Audible.com.

Hewson wrote three novels, one based on each part of the tripartite Danish TV series The Killing. Alongside A.J. Hartley he wrote prose adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays Macbeth (released 2011) and Hamlet (released 2014) exclusively for Audible.com, and alone he wrote an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, again exclusively for Audible. The three novels were narrated by Alan Cumming and Richard Armitage (who narrated both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet), respectively.

Hewson left school at 17 and joined a local newspaper, the Scarborough Evening News, in the north of England. He was later a news, business and foreign reporter for The Times, and features editor of The Independent when it was launched in 1986. He served as a board member of International Thriller Writers Inc. for four years until 2009.^[1]

Novels[edit]

• Shanghai Thunder (1986) ISBN0-7090-2553-X
• Semana Santa (1995) ISBN3-550-08239-8 (reissued as Death in Seville (2010) ISBN978-0-330-51990-8)
• Epiphany (1997) ISBN0-00-649706-3
• Solstice (1998) ISBN0-446-52449-2
• Native Rites (1999) ISBN0-00-651358-1
• Lucifer’s Shadow (revised edition re-entitled The Cemetery of Secrets) (2001) ISBN0-385-33794-9
• The Promised Land (2007)
• Carnival for the Dead (2012) ISBN978-0-230-75593-2
• The Killing: Book One (2012) ISBN1447208412^[2]
• The Killing: Book Two (2013) ISBN9781447208426
• The Killing: Book Three (2014) ISBN9781447246237

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• A Season for the Dead (2003) ISBN0-385-33722-1
• The Villa of Mysteries (2004) ISBN0-385-33772-8
• The Sacred Cut (2005) ISBN0-385-33849-X
• The Lizard’s Bite (2006)
• The Seventh Sacrament (2007)
• The Garden of Evil (2008) Shortlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009.^[3]
• Dante's Numbers (revised edition The Dante Killings in the US) (2008)
• The Blue Demon (City of Fear in the US) (2009)
• The Fallen Angel (2011) ISBN978-0-230-52937-3
• The Savage Shore (2019)

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• The House of Dolls (2014) ISBN978-1447246145
• The Wrong Girl (2015) ISBN978-1447246183
• Little Sister (2016) ISBN978-1447293392
• Sleep Baby Sleep (2017) ISBN978-1447293439

Anthologies[edit]

• The Chopin Manuscript (with Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and others, Audible audio serial, 2007).

Non-fiction[edit]

• Saved (2007). ISBN978-1-905886-76-0

Awards[edit]

In 2008, Hewson and narrator Saul Reichlin won the prize for best unabridged audiobook in the UK^[4] for The Seventh Sacrament. In 2009 the sixth Nic Costa novel, The Garden of Evil, won the American Library Association's best genre fiction reading list award for mystery.^[5]

References[edit]

1. ^davidhewson.com
2. ^The Telegraph 2012 The Killing by David Hewson: review 'Novels based on television series don’t hold much promise, but this adaptation of ‘The Killing’ is a huge success, says Toby Clements.'
3. ^'Shortlist for Theakston's Crime Novel of the year Award 2009'. digyorkshire.com. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
4. ^Audible 11 June 2008
5. ^ALA Press release 3 February 2009

External links[edit]

• 'The Chopin Manuscript' at Audible.com

Who'd want to be a writer of manuals? The endless showbiz parties, awards, book-signings and.. hang on a minute..

Spare a thought for the instruction-manual writers of this world. Like the poor souls who stick stickers on bunches of bananas (saying 'Chiquita' or whatever else) or go round amending the timetable at every bus stop on the route of the number 23, we pass by their life's work without ever wondering who they are. And their work is surely more notable, with all due respect, than that of the timetable putter-uppers or banana-sticker stickers — writing a 1200-page manual is not to be sniffed at, even if it is the work of more than one person. After all, reading a 1200-page manual is no mean feat, and it's one that is rarely attempted.

I wonder if this offends them? I wonder if, one day, our manual writer, moonlighting in the customer support department, takes a call from a confused customer who's having trouble with the software's quantising features, and realises this can only mean that his lovingly written explanation of this subject ('Appendix F: MIDI Timing — Quantising, Grooves and beyond!') has gone unread. Does he shed a silent tear, and die a little more inside?

Perhaps the general neglect of the manual-writer's craft contributes to the slight lack of enthusiasm that one detects in many manuals. In any case, there's little room in writing one for self-expression. And that's the way it should be — creativity and enthusiasm have no place in the instruction manual! I'd rather have a manual that's thorough, straight to the point and dry as dust than one which tries to be clever or funny. I may be on my own here, but a manual which includes light-hearted interjections and humorous captions is the paper-and-glue equivalent of that odd man down the pub who thinks he's your friend and is always laughing at his own jokes. Why not go the whole hog and add an animated jack plug which pops up in the corner of the screen and says things like, 'Hi there! I see you're creating a virtual instrument track. Can I help you with that?'

That aside, when you consider what manual writers have to put up with, I think you'll agree that they do an excellent job — most of the manuals you see these days are decent enough. Some are very bad and nearly all are fairly ugly, but most are very good. Nevertheless, they all seem to follow the same conventions.

Take, for example, the obligatory 'troubleshooting' table at the back. I'm sure they can be useful sometimes and, from the manufacturer's point of view, they probably pre-empt a few calls to customer service (perhaps preventing a few more knocks to our poor manual writer's fragile self-esteem), but I can't help feeling that their format limits their usefulness somewhat. Most problems that can be solved in 15 words or less shouldn't really need explaining, and most things that you really need to be told couldn't possibly be explained in 15 words. And there are always a couple of entries which don't tell you anything at all. You know the sort of thing I mean. 'Problem: Unit has no power. Cause: Power is not connected. Solution: Connect power'. There's something satisfying about a concise explanation of the head-slappingly obvious — I'm sure philosophers have a special name for it. Perhaps some form of mystic religion could be built around the reciting of these mantras — repeat after me: 'The cables are faulty. Replace the cables'.

Some manuals seek to further bemuse the reader with a web of indices, appendices and cross-referenced footnotes that threaten to trap you in an endless loop. But others are striking by the sheer lack of information contained within, or by the indecipherable way they present it. I recall a particular Russian-made mic (admittedly not a difficult thing to operate) which was accompanied by a small, unevenly cut booklet containing what appeared to be hand-traced frequency graphs and a few hand-written notes.. in Russian. Perhaps they took the word 'manual' to mean 'done by hand'. It's just a shame they didn't have a stab at translating it into English — the results would have been priceless.

I'll leave you with an excerpt from a manual, the rest of which has long since been lost, which hangs on a notice board in a corner of the Sound On Sound office, a benchmark in the field of incomprehensible technical writing which has seen off many a challenger over the years. If anyone can produce a better example, I'd like to see it, and if anyone can work out what the following actually means, I'll be really impressed!

'Part 1: Be able to adjust the revolution of knob. Using adjustment metal not spring or cushion as usual, the revolution smooth. Use the fitting adjustment tool.

'Part 2: It is housed part of the gear into case. As grease is not leak, part of the shaft and gear is greased safficiently [sic]. Therefore it is low in rotary resistance and surpass others in endurance.

Writing A User Manual David Hewson Audio Video

'Part 3: Winding shaft and gear is unification processing. It is new manufacture whose screw is not loose and whose knob is fixed with the shaft.'

Writing A User Manual Example

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it!

About The Author

David Greeves is Sound On Sound's News Editor. He believes that everybody has one good manual in them. Someday, he'll write his.