Elizabeth Kostova‘s suspenseful novel, set in Bulgaria, The Shadow Land, spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country. In Bradford Morrow‘roman an, The Prague Sonata, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of a mysterious musical masterpiece. John Freeman Gill‘s Novel The Gargoyle Hunters a boy is recruited by his father to help him in an architectural salvage scheme, imperiling his friendships, his relationship with his very first girlfriend, and even his life.