Entertaining Mystery
The Girl from BerlinThis is a well-constructed, clever story within a story. An investigative journalist is following up a legal case in which an old woman is being evicted from her Italian vineyard and home, by an unknown corporate entity. Underlying this is the tender account of a young Jewish violinist who had to flee Germany to escape the Nazis, nearly a century earlier. The way the two narratives are connected results in a spellbinding, un-put-downable mystery.