D.V. Bishop writes the award-winning Cesare Aldo historical thrillers set in Renaissance Florence.

The first, City of Vengeance (2021), won the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland, and the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Novel. The second in the series, The Darkest Sin (2022), won the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger. The third Cesare Aldo novel, Ritual of Fire (2023), was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize. The fourth book in the series, A Divine Fury (2024), was published by Pan Macmillan in hardback, audiobook and ebook in June 2024. Work is well underway on books five and six in the Cesare Aldo series.