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Originally Posted by dreams
<snip> Next up is Tom Kasey aka Peter Stuart Smith - The Dante Conspiracy [Historical Thriller] - free Apr 2013
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Florence, Italy.
The corpse of a professor of Italian Renaissance poetry is found in a deserted barn outside Florence, his body ravaged by prolonged torture.
But there seems no reason why anyone would want him dead.
Hours later, somebody breaks into Dante’s cenotaph in the Santa Croce Basilica. But that’s an empty stone box, so what were the thieves expecting to find there?
The case makes no sense, and the only link between the crimes seems to be a couple of mysterious new verses which possibly might be a part of the Divine Comedy.
Could the verses contain a code? And, if so, to what? And who wants to decode them so badly that they would kill to discover the secret?
As the body-count rises and gunshots echo around the ancient streets of Florence, the detectives investigating the murder realize they’re in a race to the death. They must crack the code and uncover the secret before the killers get there first.
The truth will be more shocking than they could ever have imagined. And more dangerous as well.
'The Dante Conspiracy' is a chilling conspiracy thriller perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Clive Cussler.
"An edge-of-the-seat thriller, with fantastic historical detail." - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'.
Tom Kasey is a pseudonym for a well-known thriller writer responsible for a series of best-sellers. His other books include the best-selling Trade-Off.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading publisher of digital books.
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I did like this one, although the ending was a little different from my cultural point of view, but may be completely realistic from that historical/cultural view. I wouldn't say it was a thriller, although the beginning is a bit of detailed torture. I think the rest of the novel was more of an Italian mystery/suspense of solving murders and a quest. The story kept me interested enough that I didn't always want to put it down, the characters became known and were fleshed out just enough that I believed their chosen actions, and I only noted a couple of wrong word errors.
Now, I have to figure out what to start next.