TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leon,Donna
TI  - The jewels of paradise
SN  - 0802120644
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press
KW  - Composers
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Venice (Italy)
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - 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
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