Allegro: A Novel

A Best Book of the Year by Christian Science Monitor

This thrilling historical mystery starring Mozart tells of friendship and betrayal, and how music allows us to defy death-from the acclaimed author of Death and the Maiden and The Suicide Museum.

In 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, looking for a sign, a signal, an answer to an enigma that has haunted him since childhood: Was Bach murdered by a famous oculist? And years later, was Handel a v...