The Metapontum Hoard

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