Minstrel's Fire

by Carla Neggers

Juliana Fall, an acclaimed pianist, finds her life and the lives of her family members greatly affected when she inherits the Minstrel's Rough, the worlds largest uncut diamond

Genres: Fiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Carla Neggers is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sharpe & Donovan series featuring Boston-based FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan, and the popular Swift River Valley series set in the small, fictional New England town of Knights Bridge. With many bestsellers to her credit, Carla loves to write now as much as she did when she climbed a tree at age eleven with a pad and pen and spun stories perched on her favorite branch.

A native New Englander, Carla and her husband divide their time between their hilltop home in Vermont, a sofa bed at their kids' places in Boston and various inns, hotels and hideaways on their travels, frequently to Ireland.

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Reviews

[James Garman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Juliana Fall is a concert piano player living in New York who happens to have, in her possession, the largest purest uncut diamond in the world. That is the basis for a mystery that ends up spreading about two continents, Europe, specifically the Netherlands and the United States.

It also has a political impact as unsavory people use things they know to blackmail at least one politician to help them get control of that diamond and the wealth it represents.

Good story.