Elias, Gerald.
Summary: When an aspiring concertmaster commits suicide after being summarily dismissed by the tyrannical conductor of a world-famous touring orchestra, blind violin teacher Daniel, who shunned the victim's earlier plea for help, investigates allegations about the conductor's harassment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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Summary: "Blind violinist Daniel Jacobus is living in self-imposed exile and enjoying a peaceful Christmas Eve when he receives an anxious phone call from obscure violin-maker Amadeo Borlotti, urgently requesting a meeting. In their festivity, Daniel Jacobus and his dear friends Nathaniel and Yumi make light of it and dismiss Borlotti's request. But when Borlotti goes mising after a fire in his shop,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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Summary: "Reclusive, blind violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus is invited to speak at a seemingly innocuous symposium on Baroque music at a prestigious music conservatory. He has no idea he is about to become enmeshed in an entrenched culture of sexual harassment and its cover-up at the highest levels. When a renowned faculty member dies of apparent natural causes, only the curious behavior of a violin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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Summary: "A freak summer storm severs an island music festival in the middle of Utah's Great Salt Lake from the mainland. When one festival administrator, and then a second, is found dead, can curmudgeonly Daniel Jacobus solve the murders before his protégée, violinist Yumi Shinagawa, becomes the third victim?"--Amazon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Level Best Books 2021
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Summary: "As the New Magini String Quartet prepares for a performance of Schubert's masterpiece, "Death and the Maiden," which it hopes will resuscitate its faltering career, someone starts picking off members of the string quartet a la Agatha Christie's And ThenThere Were None. Dogged by internal dissension and by a potentially devastating lawsuit from its fired second violinist, the famed New Magini...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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Summary: When a rare and valuable violin disappears after a concert, unpleasant and reclusive violin teacher Daniel Jacobus is blamed. Jacobus decides to prove his innocence by finding the violin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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Summary: Gerald Elias's riveting eighth installment of the critically acclaimed Daniel Jacobus mystery series will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Blind, curmudgeonly violinist Jacobus and his devoted companions, Yumi Shinagawa and Nathaniel Williams, join forces with Branwell Small, a questionably trustworthy partner in crime solving, and officious DCI Christopher Mattheson as they follow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Level Best Books 2023
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Summary: Blind violin teacher Daniel Jacobus is pulled reluctantly into the investigation when violinist and humanitarian Rene Allard is murdered and his rival, crossover artist B Tower, is sentenced to death for the crime, which Jacobus begins to believe B Tower did not commit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010