David Bishop

D. V. Bishop is the pseudonym of award-winning writer David Bishop. His love for the city of Florence and the Renaissance period meant there could be only one setting for his historical thrillers. The first Cesare Aldo novel, City of Vengeance, won the Pitch Perfect competition at the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival and the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Book. Book two in the series, The Darkest Sin, won the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger. Book three, Ritual of Fire, was longlisted for the 2023 McIlvanney Prize, while book four, A Divine Fury, was a shortlisted for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize as well as the 2025 CWA Gold and Historical Dagger Awards. David teaches creative writing at Edinburgh Napier University.