The Girl from Berlin

Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggert, the wife/husband, attorney/private investigator team from Balson's previous novels (Karolina's Twins; Once We Were Brothers), are asked by a friend to help his octogenarian Aunt Gabi retain control of her house and property in Italy. As with the previous titles, there is a World War II Holocaust backstory, this time involving Jewish child prodigy violinist Ada Baumgarten and her family's persecution by the Nazis in 1930s Berlin. The present-day narrative revolves around the supposedly ineffective (i.e., not in the chain of title ownership) deed that Gabi holds to the property where she's lived her entire life. Catherine smells a rat after meeting with Gabi's Italian lawyers, who appear to have been paid for less-than-careful research, and vows to get to the bottom of the dispute and prove Gabi's rights to the land.