The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult follows Daniel Stone, a comic book artist, and his wife Laura, a Dante scholar, whose seemingly stable family shatters when their fourteen-year-old daughter Trixie is raped at a party by her ex-boyfriend Jason. When Jason is later found dead, Trixie becomes a suspect and flees to the Alaskan wilderness where Daniel grew up, prompting her father to pursue her. Interweaving Dante's Inferno with an original comic strip, the novel explores betrayal, buried secrets, and unconditional parental love, ultimately suggesting that the tenth circle of hell exists within the family itself.
