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The Lost Queen

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Pub Date 24 Feb 2026 | Archive Date Not set


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Description

Hidden clues in a mysterious opera manuscript suggest the whereabouts of a long-disappeared opera singer.

What do a champagne socialist opera director, an albino diva, a one-eyed journalist, a professor of economics, and two Jewish Hungarian sisters — one a cancan dancer with ties to the French Resistance — have in common? They are all searching for Clara.

In 1992 opera singer Clara vanished from an airport in Cape Town. Her husband, Gareth, declared her dead in absentia eight years later. But when an anonymous opera manuscript arrives at a struggling punk opera company in Berlin, it seems to hold cryptic clues to Clara’s fate.

As unlikely allies unite to uncover the mystery, they must confront a difficult question: If they find Clara, how will it change their fragile lives? More importantly, how can they put her story on the stage?

The Lost Queen is a gripping tale of love lost, hope renewed, and the search for truth that will leave you questioning what it means to be truly found.
Hidden clues in a mysterious opera manuscript suggest the whereabouts of a long-disappeared opera singer.

What do a champagne socialist opera director, an albino diva, a one-eyed journalist, a...

Advance Praise

In The Lost Queen, Heidi von Palleske steps back into the haunting, beautiful world she first conjured in The Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack. She writes with a kind of quiet magic—the kind that sneaks up on you, the kind that makes ordinary moments shimmer. Von Palleske sees the world through both a camera lens and a poet’s eye, every frame alive, every line rich with feeling. She doesn’t just tell a story; she immerses you in one—guiding you through the dark toward something warm, luminous, and deeply human. It’s a book to fall into, get lost in, and come out the other side changed.

— Thom Ernst, author of The Wild Boy of Waubamik

In The Lost Queen, Heidi von Palleske steps back into the haunting, beautiful world she first conjured in The Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack. She writes with a kind of quiet magic—the kind...


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ISBN 9781459756892
PRICE CA$26.99 (CAD)
PAGES 400

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