“The Sacred Cut” Symbolically Engraved in Victims:
Simplicity, magnified into a complex conspiracy that has the FBI and Rome’s top agents dumfounded. An overwhelming snowstorm on Christmas Eve in Rome foreshadows the cold dark events to come forth. David Hewson, a man of mystery, is well known for his mind-boggling novels, including the The Villa of Mysteries and Solstice, both being mysterious thrillers. The Sacred Cut a novel of suspense, plus mysterious crime scenes begging to be solved.
Gianni Peroni and Nic Costa, Rome’s finest crime scene investigators, arrive upon a spine-tingling crime scene for the ages. The victim an American woman symbolically positioned and gruesomely slain, with an engraving on her back. In less than twenty-four hours the United States has agents at the crime scene. Upon arriving the Americans upset in rage with the murder have a no mercy tactic involving their investigation. The agents were ambushed when arriving at the scene leaving their only witness gone into the night.
Craving more attention, the killer goes on a devilish rampage. The clever murderer now seems to be thriving on the attention and adrenaline as he goes on a type of killing spree, feeling invincible to authorities. Emily Deacon a very attractive agent, informs Rome’s Nic Costa about a deceiving conspiracy that involves the U.S. government and her own private story. Nic, after hearing what Deacon had to say commits himself to helping find out the truth of a fifteen yearlong mystery coming unglued in the heart of Rome.
Reading through the suspense and climax of “The Sacred Cut” was like walking down a dark alley and not knowing if your going to come out on the other side. David Hewson ambiguously hid many hints through ought the novel keeping you guessing to who the murderer really is or where he will strike again. “The Sacred Cut,” a literary illusion worth reading over and over again.
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