The music lesson in this novel is a Vermeer painting. 
In a first person narrative, Patricia Dolan tells us of her relationship with a distant Irish cousin and with the lady in the painting. It is skillfully told, with just enough of past events leaking into the story to build the suspense. Still, I found Patricia’s stay in an Irish cottage claustrophobic. I longed for her to break out, to move on. She does, in a perfectly chilling ending which it would not be fair to reveal.
I read this book because of the respect I had for Katharine Weber’s next novel, Triangle. The Music Lesson is workmanlike, but not as good as Triangle.
