The Pieces from Berlin

In the great disorder of wartime Berlin, Lucia Muller-Rossi was an unofficial star: mistress to an Ambassador, the whole world to her young son, and guardian of all the lovely things her Jewish friends were forced to leave behind as they took the trains tothe death camps. Sixty years later, one of those fine pieces sits for sale in the window of Lucia's antiques shop-- and its true owner happens to pass by. In that moment, a whole lifetime of silence cracks open and Lucia's family face the wrenching duty of examining a past almost too horrifying to remember.

Novelist, historian, journalist, and broadcaster Michael Pye is the author of ten other books including <b>The Drowning Room</b> and <b>Taking Lives</b>, soon to be a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie. He is currently at work on his next novel.