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Het Masker Van Dante (2011)

by David Hewson(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

9026127219 (ISBN13: 9789026127212)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

De Fontein

series

Nic Costa

review 1: I wonder what it is in the human character that we are drawn to parallels, to plans, to revelations of hidden congruence and sympathy? Nowhere can it be better manifested than in religion, but number two has got to be The Serial Killer With A Plan. He's alphabetic! He's calendrical! Every serial killer in this genre has a system, and the book is basically the necessary artifact to present the cleverness of the plan to the public.In "Dante's Numbers", the killer's thematic inspiration is a parallel drawn between a Hitchcock movie and Dante's Inferno. All this is set against the opening of a movie adaptation of Dante's Inferno, the competing investigations of the Italian military police (carabinieri) and civilian police (the protagonists), and the cast and crew of the m... moreovie. A high concept, indeed, but oh how slowly it is developed. My pulse was not elevated, the characters failed to engage me, and I remained uninterested. I will not be chasing more Mr Hewson novels, even if the killer has a plan drawn from the hidden parallels between attendees at the Last Supper, the timing of the Euro bailout, and the use of the flattened fifth in popular music played on the electric guitar and it's nothing but supermodels and astronauts being killed.
review 2: A really good story. I read the previous two Nic Costa novels out of sequence, but this did not affect my appreciation of this book. It was a consummate page turner. Just when you thought that the truth may have been revealed you were reminded that Dante's mask was still missing and that things weren't yet quite right.As usual, David Hewson pulls it all together at the end. A brilliant book. less

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