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I gave this an extra star for shoehorning semiotics into a mystery, but I really I think it's a one-star book. The writing is not great, and the lead characters are either uninteresting or improbable, despite the author's painful efforts to make them somehow unique. And the book seems to have been edited rather laxly, if at all. Example: butchered foreign words. Toward the beginning of the book, one of the leads, supposedly an off-the-charts genius who "speaks" (not likely; try "reads") twelve dead languages, tries sprinkling some Latin into a conversation. But every bit of that Latin is botched: In a single paragraph, we get wrong noun case, wrong verb person, wrong word choice, clunky idiom. This just makes the "genius" look dumb and the author look lazy. Suggestion: If you don't know what you're doing on a given point, get help from someone who does. Not sure I can even finish this one.