Memories, fears, the fog of nightmares...
Five
years after a series of Dante-inspired killings stunned Boston, a
politician is found in a London park with his neck crushed by an
enormous stone device etched with a verse from the Divine Comedyi>. When other shocking deaths erupt across the city, all in the style
of the penances Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet
Christina Rossetti fears her missing brother, the artist and writer
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, will be the next victim.
The
unwavering Christina enlists poets Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson,
and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to decipher the literary clues, and
together these unlikely investigators unravel the secrets of
Dante’s verses to find Gabriel and stop the killings. Racing
between the shimmering mansions of the elite and the seedy corners of
London’s underworld, they descend further into the mystery.
But when the true inspiration behind the gruesome murders is
finally revealed, Christina must confront a more profound terror than
anyone had imagined.
A dazzling tale of intrigue from the
writer Library Journal calls “the
reigning king of popular literary historical
thrillers,” The Dante Chamberi> is a riveting journey across London and into both the
beauty and darkness of Dante. Expertly blending fact and fiction,
Pearl gives us a historical mystery like no other that captivates and
surprises until the last page.
Text in English
Taal / Language : English
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Paperback / softback
368 pagina's
Januari 2019
EAN: 9780143109495
Penguin Publishing Group