![]() ![]() Master of the citys music halls and devoted member of the Austrian Freemasons guild, he stands at the heart of an electric mix of art and music, philosophy and science, politics and intrigue. Combining Dan Brown or Elizabeth Kostova style historical conspiracy theory with cozy detective novel, Rees's latest offers a genuinely felt reverence for the power of Mozart's music and its lasting impact in the world. It is 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is enlightenment Viennas brightest star. Despite her reservations, she finds herself drawn to a powerful baron, himself caught up in all the intrigue. Meanwhile, Nannerl's own musical career once overshadowed by her prodigy brother's is revived as she pays tribute to his compositions. In Vienna, Nannerl finds a web of deception, scandal, and fear revolving around the colorful, dangerous Freemasons, implicating Mozart in shadowy activities and pointing to his death by poison. ![]() According to Nannerl's sister-in-law Constanze, Mozart had premonitions of murder before he died. ![]() In this engaging, well-paced book from crime novelist and journalist Rees (The Collaborator of Bethlehem), Mozart's estranged sister, Madame Maria Anna Berchtold von Sonnenburg (called Nannerl by her family), travels to Vienna to investigate the mysterious circumstances of her brother's sudden death. ![]()
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