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Playing with fire [LP]

"Violinist Julia Ansdell discovers a curious piece of music in an antiques shop in Rome. When she plays the music at home, her daughter seems violently transformed. Julia travels to Venice to find the previous owner of the music and uncovers a dark, decades-old secret involving a dangerously po...

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Main Author: Gerritsen, Tess (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2015.
Edition: Center Point Large Print edition. Large print edition.
Subjects:
Secrets > Fiction.
Musicians > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Large print books.
Summary: "Violinist Julia Ansdell discovers a curious piece of music in an antiques shop in Rome. When she plays the music at home, her daughter seems violently transformed. Julia travels to Venice to find the previous owner of the music and uncovers a dark, decades-old secret involving a dangerously powerful family determined to keep it hidden"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Description: Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2015.
"A novel"--Cover.
Physical Description: 303 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781628997859
1628997850
Author Notes: Tess Gerritsen was born on June 12, 1953 in San Diego, California. She received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. Her first novel, Call After Midnight was published in 1987. It was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote the screenplay, Adrift, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.

Her first medical thriller, Harvest, was published in 1996. She is the author of the Rizzoli and Isles series, which was adapted into a television show. She has won several awards including the Nero Wolfe Award for Vanish and the Rita Award for The Surgeon. She retired from the medical field and writes full-time. Her other novels include Presumed Guilty, Harvest, Gravity, The Bone Garden, and Playing with Fire.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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