Lempriere's Dictionary: A Novel

An important and inspiring novel.VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENTIt is 18th-century London and John Lempriere a young scholar is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the demons raised by his fathers violent and bizarre death. While tending to his fathers business affairs Lempriere discovers a 150-year old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company. But as John begins to untangle the years of mystery and deceit people begin to die in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching....