Dante's Club

I just finished this novel which was a wonderful book to read. I am not one for books that are more modern, I like the classic novels. To me they have more to offer and express more within them. But this book caught my attention and I decided to read it and see.

Matthew Pearl's Dante Club is very well written and keeps you at the edge of your seat. It focuses on a series of murders that are taken straight from the pages of Dante's Inferno. The characters and suspects are the men who worked on translating the novel, including Henry Longfellow. Pearl takes you around many twists and turns leaving you wanting more and not expecting what is going to happen next.

He was wonderful, yet sometimes gruesome descriptions that fit the crimes that are being done. I suggest this novel to anyone who is looking for a good read, and a very well done murder mystery. You won't find a novel like this anywhere else.