Bradford Morrow

In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript--the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens--come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. To Meta's eye, it appears to be an authentic eighteenth-century work; to her discerning ear, the music rendered there is hauntingly beautiful, clearly the undiscovered composition...

The murderer of Adam Diehl, a reclusive rare-book collector, begins to stalk Adam's sister's lover Will -- a convicted literary forger -- under the guise of letters from long-dead authors, and soon Will realizes that this killer threatens everything he holds dear. "The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts...

The impact of the Vietnam War on the lives of two men. They are Kip Calder and Brice McCarthy, the sons of scientists who built the atom bomb. They become best friends, but their paths fork with the outbreak of the war. McCarthy becomes a protester while Calder enlists and disappears into the jungle, leaving McCarthy to marry the woman they both loved, pregnant with his child. Twenty years later he reappears, a ghost soldier come to reclaim what was...