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Une enquête magistrale menée dans la Venise actuelle sur des secrets d'État, religieux et artistiques vieux de quatre cents ans, mêlant brillamment fiction et réalité. Caterina Pellegrini, musicologue au chômage, accepte à contrecoeur un poste de documentaliste au sein d'une Fondation à Venise. Contre toute attente, la place n'est pas de tout repos. Deux cousins se disputent l'héritage d'un lointain ancêtre dont la succession serait tranchée par de vieux documents auxquels seule Caterina a accès. Le fameux ancêtre, compositeur baroque et diplomate, remplissait des missions cruciales auprès des cours allemandes pour le Saint-Siège. Mais c'est sa musique qui le rendit immortelle. À mesure que Caterina se passionne pour la biographie de cet homme, elle soulève un mystère : le musicien espion aurait-il trempé dans la plus grave affaire de meurtre de son temps ? Et que trame au juste maître Moretti, élégante avocate, qui travaille pour ses deux descendants ?
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Composers, Secrets, Amerikanisches Englisch, Inheritance and succession, Fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Venice (italy), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Roman, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, Women musicologists, Claims against decedents' estates, Police, Large type books, Guido Brunetti (Fictitious character), Composers, fiction, Belletristische Darstellung, Musicians, fiction, Professeures de musique, Romans, nouvelles, Successions et héritages, Compositeurs, Baroque (musique), Enquêtes criminelles, Littérature américaine, Roman policier américainPlaces
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The jewels of paradise
2013, Windsor/Paragon, Paragon, Windsor
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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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