Leona Francombe
ALLi Author Member
Location: Belgium
Genres: Commercial Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
Author, pianist and composer Leona Francombe is of English and Czech heritage and grew up in the United States. Her fiction includes: "Vaulted Night: A Novella of the Uncanny" (Merle Books Brussels, 2026); "The Heron Legacy" (Merle Books Brussels, 2024, Historical Fiction Company Book of the Year); "The Universe in 3/4 Time: A Novel of Old Europe" (Merle Books Brussels, 2021, shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize); "The Sage of Waterloo"(W.W. Norton, 2015); "Madame Ernestine und die Entdeckung der Liebe" (Random House Germany, 2014), as well as many short stories and essays. Music and history are frequent themes in her writing, portrayed in suspenseful narratives featuring musical protagonists, or woven into European mysteries and adventures. Her piano compositions often reflect the atmosphere of her fiction.
Leona Francombe's books
Genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
If history offered its ghostly hand, would you take it? When legendary French film director Yann St-Clair strolls into a London café one afternoon, no one could have imagined that Alice Gray, the struggling musician serving his coffee, would remind him of a specter from his past. Or that in asking her to compose the music for his new film about Brittany, he would reawaken a family mystery kept hidden since World War II. At a crossroads in her life, Alice accepts St-Clair’s offer. Alone at his remote cottage on the Breton coast, she wanders the vast seascape and prehistoric stones for inspiration. But fragments of St-Clair’s history follow her everywhere and throw ever-deepening shadows she cannot escape. When a gale bears down and strands her at the cottage, Alice discovers a cache of letters hidden in a musical score. Their passion and beauty reveal the tragedy at the heart...