Nocturne

Amid the lush tonal landscapes of Chopin, a killer stalks unseen in Harrison Slater's page-turning new novel, Nocturne. Just when her life in New York seems to be unraveling, Artemisia Talbot receives a commission to photograph Chopin's Paris. And in the City of Light, she discovers unconditional love for the first time with a young American musicologist, Matthew Pierce. Artemisia accompanies Matthew to Warsaw, where he purchases a diary that describes Chopin's ill-fated love affair with 'little Marynia,' a talented pianist and watercolorist. But the diary also holds some disturbing parallels to contemporary events and the brilliance of Artemisia's surroundings-in Paris, Warsaw, and Nohant-obscures the grim reality that she is being followed by an obsessive killer bent on revenge. For Nocturne, a CD of Chopin's piano music has been integrated into the text ... the first example of a novel with a soundtrack, performed by the author. Nocturne combines culture and passion in a gripping narrative of love, fatal attraction and, ultimately, redemption.