A historical fiction mystery in the style of Da Vinci Code. A murder begins an investigation into a famous historical figure and their supposed involvement with the occult (in this case Newton). Although it seemed a blatant jump on the bandwagon of Dan Brown, I read a good review of the book and decided what the heck. Save yourself the bother. Although the author's semi-poetic narrative style is a sharp derivation from Brown's no-nonsense sensational journalist writing, the story suffers from too many loose ends and sharp turns that lead to empty corners. The book suffers from a lack of physical description. Although the majority of the action takes place in Cambridge, the reader gets almost no feeling for the town or the university. The attempt to bring in the occult and Newton's associations with it seems forced and nothing ever develops from it. There are also strange and completely out of place elements such as issues with the Animal Liberation Front. All of these points are supposed to wind together at the end to produce a "shocking" result and revelation but the reader never gets this impression. The murderer is revealed long before the end of the book and the author's attempt to tie this to into her many threads of the story is unconvincing and unsatisfying. To properly tie up all her loose ends, the author would have needed an extra 200-300 pages.