Now this is more like it. After the disappoitnment of The Da Vinci Code, it was good to read a literary thriller that held up to all that it was trying to be. Set amongst the literary elite of New England in the late 19th century as they battle to help Henry Longfellow put together the first US translation of Dante, a murderer is killing people in the style of Dante.
Packed with detail, it’s a cleverly written thriller, and you really feel that you’re learning as you go. It certainly made me want to read Dante.
I don’t really want to say too much more about the book except that it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a long time, and was enough to keep me page turning in every spare moment until the conclusion.