Ronald Frame

Mariel Baxter, a famous American soprano, has suddenly cancelled recitals and flown to Vienna.

In the 1980s she came to the city to study the art of lieder singing with the reclusive Ursule Kroll, one of the brightest stars of the Nazi era and a favourite of the Führer himself. The two haven't communicated since Mariel's unexpected departure over twenty-five years ago. So why has Mariel come back? As Mariel and Kroll play a complex cat-and-mouse game, terrible revelations and recriminations about the past slowly begin to unfold. Finally, Ursule is forced to confront a dark secret from her past.

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