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The Violin Maker is Molly Terrill’s debut novel. She holds an MFA in interdisciplinary arts from Goddard College and serves on the faculty of the Wellness Department at Amherst College. Her creative work has appeared in publications and on stages in the US, Canada, and Ireland. Molly lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband and two children.

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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It took me so very long to get through this one, but in the end, I'm glad I stuck with it. For whatever reason, this dual-timeline historical mystery didn't grab me the same way some of B. A. Shapiro's other works have. A lost alleged masterpiece of ...more
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M Terrill and 126 other people liked Karen's review of The Violin Maker: "This historical fiction novel provides a dual-timeline spanning 17th-century Italy and post-World War II Manhattan, integrating real-life figures into the story. Our main protagonist, violin dealer Thomas Barlow, is asked to appraise a rare Italian c" Read more of this review »
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