Tradition.
It’s how we celebrate the happy times. It’s how we get through the hard times.
Gustav Mahler told us—” Tradition is not the worship of ashes. It is the preservation of fire.”
Bella Sarver counts herself lucky to be surrounded and supported by all three components of tradition: Family. Friends. Community. What else really matters? Even so, life can still be less than perfect and family secrets can roil a community, especially when the end result is murder. So when a respected lawyer, a member of the local synagogue, is killed, his murder sends out ripples throughout Bella’s world – the local art league, the synagogue and overlapping families. Always families. Ancient tales take on new life in every generation, don’t they? Isn’t that why we still tell them? From generation to generation.
Tradition.
Sometimes we tell our ancient stories through art, as Bella understands very well. It’s how she makes connections and figures out the truth.
What’s life without traditions? Without the connections that bind us, that give life meaning? Without community?
Bella Sarver is an active participant in a close community, so she is well aware of how important that is. If sometimes, that community ‘s solidarity is interrupted by an unpleasant event, such as a murder, the members know how to deal with it, and move on. The community becomes even stronger afterwards.
Bella Sarver’s latest mystery is now available to order from Amazon. Also available are the other books in the Bella Sarver series. Learn about painting, the art world, European history, Jewish history and traditions, and oh, yes–sometimes someone gets murdered!
