Benjamin Roberts's debut novel, "The Girl I Knew," is the story of two very different people - Zana, a high-flying but deeply troubled girl, and Lionel, a failed music lawyer with an eccentric and unconventional character, and the dawning recognition of their link in a mystery triggered by a shattering psychic event which involves the legacy of a wartime musical opera singer, of the mountain villages of High Albania and of the victims of communism in the Cold War. A story of love, betrayal and redemption."