Before Inferno came The Dante Club...the captivating thriller from the writer whose fans include Dan Brown, Jed Rubenfeld, Kate Mosse and Tess Gerritsen
Boston, 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepare to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. Meanwhile a ruthless killer plots in secret to do the same.
When a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge, only this small group are able to decipher the clues - they soon realise the gruesome killings are symbols modeled on the descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's Inferno. With the police baffled, lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find a way to stop the killer.
`An immensely gifted author' Dan Brown, bestselling author of Inferno and The Da Vinci Code
I liked this one OK. I took me awhile to get into it, but once I did it seemed to progress at a good pace. Like the author's other book (The Poe Shadow) this one also had a plethora of characters that I found hard to keep track of at times. I really enjoyed the mystery and the tie in to Dante's Divine Comedy. I am usually pretty good at figuring out the "who did it" in books long before they are revealed, but this one surprised me and that is always a plus. Overall a pretty good read!
