Boston, 1865. America’s first translation of The Divine Comedy is nearly complete, thanks to the literary minds of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and publisher J. T. Fields. But Harvard’s powerful elite want Dante kept in the shadows, dismissing his work as dangerous foreign superstition.
When a string of murders shocks Boston, only the Dante Club recognizes the pattern. The victims are dying in ways that mirror the punishments of Dante’s Inferno. With the city in panic and suspicion growing, the scholars must hunt the killer in secret.
Failure means more than another death. It could destroy Dante’s future in America and ruin them all.
In this ingenious historical thriller, poetry and murder prove a deadly combination.
