Just before the grand premiere of Inferno, a movie directed by the aged Roberto Tonti based on The Divine Comedy, Maggie Flavier who plays a leading role is menaced by a gun-wielding imposter. To make matters worse, they discover that Dante's death mask, the spotlight of the exhibition, has been somehow exchanged with a death mask of Allan Prime who is the missing star of the show. Following this, a live footage of Allan's horrific countdown to death is revealed online and the Carabinieri seize control over the investigation. Due to the distractions, Inferno's show is postponed and moved to San Francisco where Nic Costa and his dejected colleagues from the Italian State Police continue the mundane task of protecting other exhibition items. The attention-loving Commander Quattrocchi of the Carabinieri asserts that a lunatic Dante fan must've been responsible the murder while on the other hand, the skeptical State Police disagree. In addition, a pathologist from Nic's team thinks she's spotted a link between a previous film directed by Tonti and Carlotta Valdes, an enigmatic woman who's reported to have last been with Prime before his death. But who would go to such lengths over a film or a poem? What if it's just a wild publicity stunt? Or something pre-organised, something much more sinister?
This novel belongs to the mystery/thriller category and therefore, has twists in the plot to keep you guessing. It's not the first in a particular series but even though I haven't read the previous installments, everything still makes sense.
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