A cerebral, high-stakes psychological thriller exploring control, manipulation, and the lethal price of truth..!
MOST INHERIT WEALTH. SOME INHERIT SECRETS WORTH KILLING FOR.
When Emma is named in the will of a Monaco acquaintance, what begins as a baffling legacy soon pulls her into a web of power, deception, and carefully constructed lies. As her moral compass begins to blur dangerously, she realizes the greatest threat isn’t the danger—it’s that she is liking it. read more.
A pattern of suspicious deaths forces her to question her benefactor, and the reality behind her own parents’ deaths. She concludes too late that the inheritance was never a gift; it was a lure into a world where survival is the only option.
As this deadly orchestration stretches from the freezing Alpine peaks to the sun-drenched hostility of the French Riviera, the rising danger is matched by a sudden, disorienting spark with her oldest friend, Angela. It is an unsettling connection that threatens her isolation just when she needs the armor of it most.
The air is thin among the elite; there isn’t enough oxygen for the truth to survive. Emma and Max are running out of time.
EMMA LEARNED EARLY THAT ACCIDENTS CAN BE STAGED AND TRUTHS ERASED, HAVING LIVED HER ENTIRE LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF HER MOTHER'S ALLEGED SUICIDE.
Formidable yet deeply flawed, Swiss investigative journalist Emma Bally has crossed ethical lines she once believed inviolable. Worn down by years of unmasking corruption—and accepting significant bribes to bury it—she has taken a sabbatical in the quiet heights of the Swiss Alps to renovate a luxury chalet… read more. as a physical penance for a compromised life. Her only partner in crime is Max, a Jack Russell who demands no explanations, yet holds her accountable simply by staying.
The architects of this conspiracy believe they have trapped a broken loner. Instead, they’ve cornered a Honey Badger. A woman with nothing to lose is merely dangerous; a woman with everything to protect is a reckoning.
“Symphony of Lies” marks Maria’s official debut. It is the first story she deemed dangerous enough to share with the world.
MARIA MONDAY IS A SWISS AUTHOR AND THE CREATOR OF THE EMMA BALLY SERIES.
Born in the United States, shaped by Switzerland, and polished by Monaco, she has always navigated worlds defined by wealth, discipline, and absolute discretion. read more.
After studying business administration in Boston, she stepped into her family’s international enterprise, gaining firsthand knowledge of the quiet corridors where global power truly operates. That insider fluency now serves as the engine for her fiction
Alongside her writing, Monday is an interior decorator—a profession that shares a surprising kinship with her prose. Both demand a precise eye, careful restraint, and an instinct for what lies hidden beneath a flawless surface. Fluent in eight languages, she divides her time between the quiet heights of Europe and the vibrant energy of Latin America, observing the world with the same sharp intuition as her characters.
Her work pulls back the curtain on privilege without melodrama, exploring the moral ambiguities that thrive in the shadows of extreme wealth.
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