Book description
Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired by two
competing cousins to find the truthful heir to an alleged treasure
concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque
composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by
searching through the papers contained in the composer's two chests
that have not been opened for centuries.
As she delves into all quarters of his life, from professional to
personal, she is drawn into one of the most scandalous affairs of
the baroque era. When her research takes her in unexpected
directions, she begins to wonder what dark secrets these chests hold
and just whom can she trust?
Donna Leon has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived
in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a
teacher . Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all
been highly acclaimed; including
Friends in High Places
, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction,
Through a
Glass, Darkly
,
Suffer the Little Children
,
The Girl of His Dreams
and, most recently,
Beastly Things.
