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c2010., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Hew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nic Costa Volume: 8Summary Note: "Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Butteri committed a series of bizarre crimes evoking the lost race of the Etruscans, and leaving in their wake a several bodies, a cryptic message, and a kidnapped child. Now, the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered, seemingly by a strange young man dressed as the Etruscan blue demon, detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved. The Butteri have returned - and are planning to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks on the city. Officially sidelined from the investigation but encouraged by the wily old Italian President, Dario Sordi, Costa and his team start to dig deeper into the past. There are still too many questions left unanswered - and much more to the history of the Butteri than anyone wants to admit."--Inside jacket flap.
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2010., Harper Call No: Fic Bur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Mysteriously summoned to Quantico to help re-create the face of a murdered, mutilated young woman, FBI forensic artist Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick knows immediately this is no ordinary crime. The hit-and-run death of the forensic anthropologist assisting her--a close friend--and Sydneyœs abrupt dismissal from the case by covert government investigators only strengthen her need for answers. Now her hunt for a killer is carrying her from Washington to Rome to the hidden chamber of a legendary tomb--on the trail of a fabled treasure of the Knights Templar ... and a curse ..."--p. [4] of cover.
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2008., Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Hew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nic Costa Volume: 7Summary Note: Mystery fiction. The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial film, 'Inferno', based on his epic work. But at the grand unveiling this priceless artefact is replaced by a macabre death mask of the film's star, Allen Prime. And minutes later, the leading actress, Maggie Flavier, is threatened before her attacker is shot. After footage of Prime's murder is shown over the internet, the Carabinieri are determined to take over the investigation, certain that a crazed Dante fan is behind the killing. Nic Costa and his team follow the movie to its next showing in San Francisco, to safeguard the remaining items. However, in California the mystery deepens, with confusing new clues about the deaths in Rome. Can Costa protect Maggie, find the truth and stop the killer - all before life imitates art?.
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2014., Adult, Quercus Call No: MYS Fic Cos Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Commissario Balistreri mystery Volume: 1Summary Note: "Rome, 1982. On the evening of Italy's winning the football World Cup in Spain, an eighteen-year-old female employed by by the Vatican's housing agency disappears into thin air. The investigation is given to a young officer, Michele Balistreri. Headstrong and arrogant, Balistreri takes the case lightly, and it is only when a gruesome discovery is made on the banks of the Tiber that he realizes the terrible cost of his negligence. Rome, 2006. While Italy celebrates its first World Cup triumph in twenty-four years, journalist Linda Nardi is busy investigating a series of brutalities against young women. Although the murders have been pinned on a group of juveniles from the city's immigrant community, Nardi is exploring a more sinister possibility, at the personal request of the head of Rome's Special Foreign Section, Michele Balistreri. Balistreri, despite having risen to one of the highest ranks in the Italian police, is still plagued by the tragedy that marked his early career. Suspecting the recent crimes to be the work of a serial killer, he hopes that stopping this murderer will help to assuage the crippling guilt and regret that he has shouldered for over two decades. For Nardi - a relentless and enigmatic investigative journalist - Balistreri's proposition has presented a golden opportunity. If the nation is being misled as to the true nature of the crimes, she can expose the conspiracy and help to combat the corruption and racism that has become endemic in Italian society. One is fighting to fix the past, the other to fix the present. Yet these battles will prove to be shockingly linked: for the evil Nardi now seeks has marked Balistreri once before, and its malevolent trail goes way higher, and way further back, than either of them dared imagine. "--Publisher.
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2008., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Hew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nic Costa Volume: 6Summary Note: CRIME & MYSTERY FICTION. In a hidden studio in an area of Rome, where the Vatican liked to keep an eye on the city's prostitutes, an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings that Nic Costa has ever see, an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long tragedy will strike Nic even more terribly as his young wife is brutally killed by the suspect Costa is pursuing. The man's identity is known but he remains untouchable, protected in his grand palazzo by a fleet of lawyers and a sinister cult known as The Ekstasists. If Costa and his team can crack the reasons for the cult's existence, he may well stand a chance of nailing his wife's killer. But the mystery will take him right back to Caravaggio himself and the reasons he had to flee Rome, all those centuries before.
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2005., Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Hew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nic Costa Volume: 3
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2007., Macmillan Call No: Fic Hew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nic Costa Volume: 5
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[1993], Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Call No: MYS Fic Pea Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2003., Adult, Macmillan Call No: MYS Fic Hew Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nic Costa Volume: 2
