Below is a gallery of images from visiting bookshops around Aotearoa New Zealand in December 2022 and January 2023. The first shows D V Bishop at Page & Blackmore in Nelson; photos 2-5 were taken by Lynda Corner during a crammed event at Wardini Books in Havelock North; photo 6 shows D V Bishop signing Cesare Aldo novels at Unity Books in Wellington. A huge thank you to all the wonderful booksellers for being so friendly and welcoming!
The monograph that inspired Cesare Aldo
D. V. Bishop recalls how a chance encounter with an academic monograph inspired twenty years of research that eventually led to writing the novel that introduces Florentine sleuth Cesare Aldo…
September 2019: Pan Mac scoops historical crime novel is two-book deal
This is the official press release from September 2019 announcing that Pan Macmillan would be publishing City of Vengeance as part of a two-book deal…
September 2018: the experience of winning Pitch Perfect at Bloody Scotland 2018
This blog post archives a Twitter thread by D. V. Bishop about his experience of winning the Pitch Perfect competition at the Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival held at Stirling in September 2018…
July 2017: the first blog post about City of Vengeance
I killed two people this morning – one with a dagger to his chest, the other an arrow wound – but Robert Louis Stevenson must take some blame for my murderous ways.