Houslistka z Berlína – Balson Ronald H. (2023)

Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart receive an invitation to dinner at an Italian restaurant. The aunt of its owner and their longtime friend is being evicted from her farm in the Tuscan hills by a very influential corporation that claims to have ownership rights to the land. Catherine and Liam receive a single clue in the form of a handwritten German biography, which hides a long-forgotten story... Ada Baumgarten was born in Berlin at the end of the war, precisely in 1918. She was the daughter of a renowned musician who played first violin in the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, and she herself also became a brilliant violinist. In her childhood, she lived surrounded by the rich culture and refined society of interwar Berlin. It was then that she formed a deep bond with her friend Kurt. However, the tide of history took a different direction. Ada was Jewish, and societal pressures soon deprived her of her friend. What happened to Ada? How is her life connected to the legal dispute over the ownership of the Tuscan farm? Catherine and Liam gradually delve into deep lies, corruption, and human evil, but at their depths, they find a story full of kindness, retribution, and hope, the ending of which has yet to be written.