The jewels of paradise
(2012)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/LEON,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Mysteries MYSTERY/LEON,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2012]
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

244 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780802120649, 0802120644
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered. Deeply-connected in religious and political circles, the composer died childless; now two Venetians, descendants of his cousins, each claim inheritance. Caterina's job is to examine any enclosed papers to discover the "testamentary disposition" of the composer. But when her research takes her in unexpected directions she begins to wonder just what secrets these trunks may hold