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Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
5.0

At first I was like "oh, so this is a Dan Brown book with a Black Robert Langdon." It was about half that, which I want to be clear - isn't a bad thing for me. :)

It's the story of a professor who is digging into the legacy of a famous composer from the 1920's, and they start to piece together that he might have had some help in his music writing/inspiration from a Black woman. I think what ultimately takes me up to a 5 star on this one is the fact that this fiction... but it is oh-so-plausible and it really made me wonder just how many marginalized people were robbed of credit and/or opportunity to share their art. I liked how Slocumb included women, minority, and neurodivergence as factors to consider.

Really good, well-paced, well-written.