Researching in Germany and Italy for her biography on 19th century composer Fanny Mendelssohn, Megan Crespi is confronted by modern-day neo-Nazis and neo-Fascists.

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Fanny, also a prolific and until recently long overlooked composer. She is joined by three colleagues from the fields of music, museum, and photography. They encounter a spate of antisemitic demonstrations masterminded by neo-Nazi organizations in the two German cities associated with the Mendelssohns, Hamburg and Berlin. American composer Simon Saragon’s groundbreaking A Jewish Requiem premieres at a historic Berlin synagogue with dire results. Following Fanny’s footsteps in Italy, where Megan discovers an unknown oil portrait of Fanny, our Mendelssohn Quartet is confronted by a neo-Fascist in Rome’s fabled bohemian Caffè Greco. Upon reaching Fanny’s beloved Terracina on Italy’s southern coast and the island of Ponza, their lives are threatened. Can rescue on this isolated island be on its way?

Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini was awarded Austria’s Grand Medal of Honor for her books on Viennese artists Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Her Egon Schiele’s Portraits was nominated for the National Book Award and her The Changing Image of Beethoven is used in classrooms around the country. Both books in new editions are now available from Sunstone Press as well as The Fantastic Art of Vienna, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Schiele in Prison. Comini’s travels, recorded in her memoir, In Passionate Pursuit, extend from Europe to Antarctica to China and are reflected in her Megan Crespi Mystery Series: Killing for Klimt, The Schiele Slaughters, The Kokoschka Capers, The Munch Murders, The Kollwitz Calamities, The Kandinsky Conundrum, The Mahler Mayhem, The Beethoven Boomerang, The Brahms Bust and The Schumann Shaming. All Comini’s scholarly books are available in new editions from Sunstone Press as is the entire Megan Crespi Mystery Series.

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