The Italian Hall

By Deon Benito

A famous shout. A fabricated answer. A keeper who checks.

Calumet, in the Keweenaw, the week before Christmas. Ada Byrne has come north to open the captain's house on Eighth Street - three Decembers she has kept it, and she knows how it was, so she knows when it isn't.

Her guests are true-crime writer Graham Hale and his researcher, Mara Quinn. Hale arrives certain he has solved the Italian Hall disaster of Christmas Eve 1913 - seventy-three dead after a shout of fire - with a button in a photograph and a letter no one else has seen. His publisher has paid forty thousand dollars for that certainty.

Mara has spent eight months in the archive and keeps every pull slip. Ada keeps houses the same way. Between them, the evidence starts to move - and a town that still reads the names aloud each Christmas Eve must decide what it owes the dead: a story, or the truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNXRH71G
• ISBN13: 9798953798082
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Benito Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"