Full of knowing nods to the shivery pleasures of suspense and the transporting power of music, this is a wholly winning new novel from a writer lauded as 'charming' (Los Angeles Times), 'witty' (O, The Oprah Magazine), and 'whimsical' (People).

For everyone has come to the Bellweather with a secret, and everyone is haunted. Is it a prank, or has murder struck the Bellweather once again? The search for answers entwines a hilariously eccentric cast of characters-conductors and caretakers, failures and stars, teenagers on the verge and adults trapped in memories. Her third novel, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019. She is the author of the novels This Must Be the Place and Bellweather Rhapsody, winner of the American Library Associations Alex Award. Shes also written the most resonant descriptions of music-how it really works in the head and the heart-that Ive ever read. Kate Racculia is a novelist living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Then one of the orchestra's stars disappears-from room 712. Racculia tells the truth here, about art and life and the many trajectories that talent can take.

Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual statewide festival the grown-up bridesmaid has returned to face her demons and a snowstorm is forecast that will trap everyone on the grounds.

But its pleasures are beautifully deepened by Kate Racculia's skill with her characters, her melancholy, affecting writing about music, and her fearlessness about the loss and darkness that underline the. A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from a hotel room that was the site of a famous murder/suicide fifteen years earlier-in this 'deliciously dark confection of a novel, and one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I've read in years' (Celeste Ng). Bellweather Rhapsody is a genre-bending page-turner, full of knowing nods to pop culture classics from The Shining to Agatha Christie to Glee.

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia