"This volume collects two well-crafted novels by Sternberg... Blending operatic drama, sumptuous description, and noir, Sternberg gracefully puzzles out her tormented characters’ actions and motivations in each book. The author is an Edgar Award nominee" Publishers Weekly
DEATH IS THE COOL NIGHT: On the eve of America's entry into World War II, a tortured pianist can't remember the night his nemesis, an opera conductor, is killed. Did he do it? Or is the murderer his beautiful and troubled new love? A dramatic story with operatic overtones….
LOST TO THE WORLD: Ten years after the war, Detective Sean Reilly finds no peace. His wife is gone, he has to raise two boys on his own and solve a complicated new case: the murder of a researcher at the Johns Hopkins polio research labs on the eve of the famous vaccine trials that will save so many children while leaving current polio victims lost to the world.
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About the Author
Libby Sternberg is the Edgar-nominated author of teen mysteries and historical novels. Her retelling of the Jane Eyre story, SLOANE HALL, has been praised by Bronte experts. She writes humorous women's fiction under the name Libby Malin -- one of these books has been optioned for film -- and literary fiction and short stories under the name Elizabeth Malin.
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Two mysteries by an Edgar nominee
"This volume collects two well-crafted novels by Sternberg... Blending operatic drama, sumptuous description, and noir, Sternberg gracefully puzzles out her tormented characters’ actions and motivations in each book. The author is an Edgar Award nominee" Publishers Weekly
DEATH IS THE COOL NIGHT: On the eve of America's entry into World War II, a tortured pianist can't remember the night his nemesis, an opera conductor, is killed. Did he do it? Or is the murderer his beautiful and troubled new love? A dramatic story with operatic overtones….
LOST TO THE WORLD: Ten years after the war, Detective Sean Reilly finds no peace. His wife is gone, he has to raise two boys on his own and solve a complicated new case: the murder of a researcher at the Johns Hopkins polio research labs on the eve of the famous vaccine trials that will save so many children while leaving current polio victims lost to the world.
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About the Author
Libby Sternberg is the Edgar-nominated author of teen mysteries and historical novels. Her retelling of the Jane Eyre story, SLOANE HALL, has been praised by Bronte experts. She writes humorous women's fiction under the name Libby Malin -- one of these books has been optioned for film -- and literary fiction and short stories under the name Elizabeth Malin.