I bought The Last Secret of the Temple because I very much enjoyed Mr. Sussman's first novel. However, in my opinion this new novel is even better. In particular, I enjoyed the fact that, although the story switches between the three protagonists, to give you get a fast-paced feeling each sequence is not so long as to make you lose interest in the other storylines. And you have to love the way each storyline moves forward and interacts with the others to solve the great puzzle. Although the novel is at heart a mystery novel I very much think that Mr. Sussman is selling himself short when in an interview he declined to describe this novel as literature. It is a mystery novel which leaves you with a lot more than just having been entertained.