Fiction by Brendan Slocumb
Dr. Bern Hendricks is a musician and a historian, and his specialty is early 20th century composer Frederick Delaney. So when the Delaney Foundation calls him to say they have found documents needing review, he jumps at the chance to fly to New York and study them. After all, there is still some mystery surrounding Delany's work, and Bern longs to be the one to find out the truth. He enlists help from his friend Eboni Washington, a computer tech expert who had helped him with his Delaney dissertation some years before.
But soon Bern gets the feeling that the Delaney Foundation may not be interested in the truth. Or is it just because he and Eboni are the only Black scholars working with the all-white Foundation members that makes him uneasy? The reader knows something more is definitely going on! Then the book makes a time shift back to the early 1900's and the real Frederick Delaney's life and the plot thickens.
This was a really good book, a blend of historical and mystery fiction with interesting musical and cultural aspects as well. I highly recommend it!
I also read by this author: The Violin Conspiracy
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