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Lily Kovner, nicknamed the Jewish Miss Marple, accidentally spies a familiar-looking painting hanging in the unlikely setting of a shabby restaurant in Vatican City. Simon Rieger, her significant other, has been summoned to examine a previously unknown manuscript, attributed to a famous Talmudic scholar, unaccountably stored there. A suspicious death and the disappearance of both the painting and manuscript lead Lily and Simon to Lviv, Ukraine, newly freed from Soviet rule but a city lacking vestiges of the vibrant Jewish community that thrived there for centuries before World War II and isolation behind the Iron Curtain. Lily recalls her one pre-war childhood visit to this city then known as Lwów, Poland, and wonders if any of the relatives she met survived the Holocaust. The trail of the manuscript and painting provides early clues. Ultimately, the path reveals a modern woman's saga of solitary resiliance, despite the treachery of perpetrators professing to be holy, that mirrors a centuries-old local legend of a Jewish heroine who saved a landmark synagogue.

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In her third Lily Kovner novel, Linda Frank again sends her heroine on the trail of a mystery wrapped in numerous enigmas. The result is a gripping, moving, and richly textured tale, involving multiple layers of 20th-century Jewish history stacked on top of one another. The Nice Little Blonde Girl transports the reader across Europe and back through the decades, as Lily follows historical and personal breadcrumbs to uncover startling truths. Joel B. Berkowitz Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature [and director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies], University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

In her third Lily Kovner novel, Linda Frank again sends her heroine on the trail of a mystery wrapped in numerous enigmas. The result is a gripping, moving, and richly textured tale, involving multiple layers of 20th-century Jewish history stacked on top of one another. The Nice Little Blonde Girl transports the reader across Europe and back through the decades, as Lily follows historical and personal breadcrumbs to uncover startling truths. Joel B. Berkowitz Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature [and director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies], University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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