Book: Mozart's Last Aria Author: Matt Rees Genre: Historical Fiction/Mystery Summary: The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl's brother's demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was r...
Book received from Corvus through Book Geeks. Rome in 1605 is a place where powerful families are in competition with each other and not even the Pope has enough power to control everybody and everything. In a world where the mighty live in grand palazzos, surrounded by wealth, Caravaggio is a paint...
I finished Mozart's Last Aria by Matt Rees. Overall, I liked it fairly well & think it would appeal to fans of historical fiction &/or Mozart fans. It would probably also appeal to those who have enjoyed Dan Brown's book as it's a bit similar in style (Masons, secret symbols, influential men, etc......
With nine years of participating in an award-winning wind ensemble under my belt, I have a huge affinity for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his works. I've visited Salzburg several times, toured the house in which he was born, and have watched the movie Amadeus more times than I probably should admit. ...
Even though this book has elements that I just eat up -- a take-charge heroine, unique foreign setting, weird conspiracy involving a secret society, dramatic artists, and lots of intrigue -- I actually found this to be an unremarkable novel. The book isn't bad -- it's just rather pedestrian. At 29...
Mozart's Last Aria by Matt Rees is a combination historical fiction/mystery novel. This is not your run-of-the-mill pot-boiler, though. It's much more complex --and even rather magical.Readers will be surprised to see a different Mozart when seen through the letter his sister, Maria Anna (affectiona...
Few detective novels have managed to elicit a profoundly emotional response from me the way The Collaborator of Bethlehem had. For his debut novel, Matt Beynon Rees plumbs the depths of his experience as Time Magazine's former Israel bureau chief to create a compelling mystery set within the context...
3 1/2*
A well written book by a new to me author. I'll definitely be on the lookout for the previous 3 in this series featuring Omar Yussef, a school teacher from Palestine. A teacher who solves mysteries, it seems.
When a former student, who is a Christian, is accused of collaborating with the Israeli's Omar Yussef tries to prove his innocence. A good mystery plot with an intriguing setting. Rees was a journalist in the Middle East so the characters and situations rang true.
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