Elegy in a Country Graveyard — Audrey Peterson

A QUIET OLD LADY'S DEATH ISTHEOVERTURE TO A SYMPHONY OF GREED AND BETRAYAL!

Jane Winfield is snug and happy in London, tending her new baby and writing the biography of the brilliant pianist Silvio Antonelli. But Jane's halcyon days are cut violently short when her beloved Aunt Carlotta is killed in a hit-and-run accident near her West Yorkshire cottage.

A former governess, Carlotta Burns kept journals that illuminate the life and death of Antonelli, her most famous pupil. The faded pages also reveal a singular tale of desire and treachery, genius and passion...forces that are winding inexorably into the present.

For Jane's dear great-aunt left an estate valued at more than two hundred thousand pounds. Already, the heirs and would-be-heirs are gathering...from Jane's long-lost American cousin to Antonelli's last lover, Roy Wade, seeking a memento mori--in cash. With her husband, James, and her friend Andrew Quentin by her side, Jane is struggling to uncover the truth about her aunt's rich legacy--and her sudden death. Then disaster strikes again, and Jane must pursue an unknown killer to save her baby's life...