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Kate racculia s novel bellweather rhapsody is a quirky, engaging mystery set in a decaying hotel over a high school music festival weekend. Well, kate racculia s sophomore novel, bellweather rhapsody takes that train of thought and runs with it. A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murdersuicide fifteen years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds. Jessica almasys performance delineates the various characters very well she modulates her voice to sound like a high schooler one moment. Witty and smartly moving, kate racculia s bellweather rhapsody offers a heartthumping mystery of music and murder, wherein the past repeats itself, and in doing so becomes malleable again. Isbn 9780544129917 97805443471 publisher houghton harcourt. Bellweather rhapsody received an alex award and was named the best book of the summer by publishers weekly in the year 2015. Kate racculia author kate racculia is the author of the novels this must be the place and bellweather rhapsody, winner of the american library associations alex award.
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