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The Girl From Berlin by Fred Berman

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The Girl From Berlin

A Novel

Fred Berman, Ronald H. Balson, Macmillan Audio

St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · September 17, 2019

Reading lane: FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II

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Good for readers interested in book clubGood for fans of Historical FictionGood for readers who enjoy FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II and FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust.

Book Details

Authors
Fred Berman, Ronald H. Balson, Macmillan Audio
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Published
September 17, 2019
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II · FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust
Reading lane
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II

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  • Private Investigator Tales

  • Historical Thrillers

  • Legal Thrillers

About This Book

Ronald H. Balson's The Girl from Berlin is the winner of the Book Club category for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award. In this new novel, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secrets An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by a powerful corporation claimin...

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Ronald H. Balson's The Girl from Berlin is the winner of the Book Club category for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award. In this new novel, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secrets An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by a powerful corporation claiming they own the deeds, even though she can produce her own set of deeds to her land. Catherine and Liam’s only clue is a bound handwritten manuscript, entirely in German, and hidden in its pages is a story long-forgotten… Ada Baumgarten was born in Berlin in 1918, at the end of the war. The daughter of an accomplished first-chair violinist in the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, and herself a violin prodigy, Ada’s life was full of the rich culture of Berlin’s interwar society. She formed a deep attachment to her childhood friend Kurt, but they were torn apart by the growing unrest as her Jewish family came under suspicion. As the tides of history turned, it was her extraordinary talent that would carry her through an unraveling society turned to war, and make her a target even as it saved her, allowing her to move to Bologna—though Italy was not the haven her family had hoped, and further heartache awaited. What became of Ada? How is she connected to the conflicting land deeds of a small Italian villa? As they dig through the layers of lies, corruption, and human evil, Catherine and Liam uncover an unfinished story of heart, redemption, and hope—the ending of which is yet to be written.

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