The Tenth Bar
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REVISED 7/8/26
Synopsis
Nine bars of a violin piece, worried over for days, refusing a tenth. Six labeled vials in a rack. A manila folder Henry Hamilton has decided not to open — which makes it the most important object in the room.
In the cold autumn after the Farrell matter, Hamilton is listening for something he can hear but not yet prove: a pattern beneath his cases, the next figure in a design that has not consented to show itself. The Kingsland and Farrell threads are drawing toward a common source — and Wilson has learned to distrust any silence that pleases his friend.
He spoke of the tenth bar as if it were a country from which no map had returned.
Elegant, suspenseful, and rich with emotional intelligence, The Tenth Bar is a novel of hidden histories, parallel cases, and the peril of trusting what feels most familiar. The sixth volume of The Adventures of Henry Hamilton, it brings together murder, secrecy, family revelation, and institutional conspiracy in a story where every solved mystery sharpens the outline of a much larger one still waiting in the shadows.
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