Maestro

A London high flier rents a country cottage and is drawn to her landlord, a mysterious artist suspected of killing the cottage’s previous tenant. Sara, burnt-out by her career and relationship-weary, holidays alone near a remote English village where her presence sets off a chain reaction that compels her to investigate a twenty-year-old enigma – a case closed for lack of corpse or witness. Sara follows a trail of circumstantial evidence leading to her landlord Gillane, an artist who surrounds himself with secrecy. Reckless or refined? Gentle or jackal? Who is this man? Why is she drawn to him? Maestro is a story of souls: attracted by need, repelled by fear, choosing to live in isolation yet searching for connection. Maestro plays an intoxicating melody – when the music stops, who will be left without a chair?About the AuthorSamantha van Dalen lives in London. The central story in Maestro, the characters, their names, their physical characteristics, even the dates, came to Samantha in a dream. She began writing the next morning...