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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
While teaching a master class at an elite music conservatory, the blind violinist and amateur sleuth give an extra lesson in how to catch a killer.
When the Kinderhoek Conservatory of Music in Upstate New York has a last-minute cancellation for its “Going for Baroque” festival, they call on virtuoso violinist Daniel Jacobus to sit in on panels and teach a master class. While his expertise in musicology is as noteworthy as his roster of former students, the reclusive curmudgeon’s brusk manner is a shock to the gentile Kinderhoek community. But not nearly as shocking as murder.
When a renowned faculty member dies of apparently natural causes, Jacobus’s finely attuned ear alerts him to the fact that something is terribly amiss. As he roots out false notes and false claims among the students and faculty, he soon discovers that beneath their civil tone is a secondary theme of harassment and deadly corruption.
“Readers will enjoy spending time in the company of the curmudgeonly Jacobus, and many will welcome the absence of fisticuffs, car chases, and Glocks” —Publishers Weekly
“A very good entry in a reliable series.” —Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Elias's intriguing sixth Daniel Jacobus mystery (after 2016's Playing with Fire), the blind violinist's former student Yumi Shinagawa is now adjunct professor of violin at the Kinderhoek Conservatory of Music in New York's bucolic Cornwall County. Yumi invites Jacobus to the conservatory to conduct a master class during the institution's annual Going for Baroque festival. Unfortunately, the irascible Jacobus gets into disputes with his students, and Yumi rebukes him when she hears him use sexist language ("Suck it up, buttercup"). The death of renowned composer and faculty member Aaron Schlossberg, apparently due to complications from his diabetes, leads to more trouble for Jacobus, who becomes involved in what develops into a murder investigation. Readers will enjoy spending time in the company of the curmudgeonly Jacobus, and many will welcome the absence of fisticuffs, car chases, and Glocks. Jacobus's blindness adds an interesting angle, with suspects and witnesses classified and identified by the cadence and timbre of their voices.
