In 1961 in a small Michigan town the bones of a young woman are discovered under the burnt-out shell of an old county courthouse. The only clue to her identity is a pendant with an inscription from Dante's Inferno. High-school junior Alex Chappel is drawn into the mystery of her deatth and the search for her killer, a search that will lead him to the town's dark past and its deadly connection to the ancient Metapontum hoard.The Metapontum Hoard is a complex, sometimes humorous, historical murder mystery spanning over two millennia, involving buried treasure, buried corpses, and buried secrets.
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