Gerald Elias, Author . Minotaur $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-54181-1
Elias, a violinist and music professor, puts a priceless violin at the center of his taut debut. The violin in question is part of the highly exclusive Grimsley Competition, open only to child prodigies under the age of 13, held every 13 years at...
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Gerald Elias, Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-54189-7
The murder of a virtuoso violinist and a death sentence for a possibly innocent man launch Elias's deft follow-up to Devil's Trill (2009). Blind and cranky Daniel Jacobus, a former concert violinist, reluctantly agrees to investigate the murder of...
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Gerald Elias. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-67834-0
Things are looking up for the celebrated New Magini String Quartet in Elias's talky, less than compelling third mystery featuring blind violin teacher Daniel Jacobus (after 2010's Danse Macabre) once the quartet settles a major lawsuit and is slated
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Gerald Elias. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-67835-7
Near the start of Elias’s finely tuned, wickedly funny fourth mystery featuring crotchety blind violinist Daniel Jacobus (after 2011’s Death and the Maiden), 41-year-old violinist Sherry O’Brien asks for his help with her audition for concertmaster...
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Gerald Elias. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8614-9
Elias’s pleasant fifth Daniel Jacobus mystery (after 2012’s Death and Transfiguration) finds the aging blind violinist and wisecracking curmudgeon enjoying a Christmas weekend at home in the Berkshires with former pupil Yumi, now an internationally...
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Gerald Elias. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8712-2
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.
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Gerald Elias. Level Best, $16.95 trade paper (290p) ISBN 978-1-6851-2025-2
Elias’s diverting seventh Daniel Jacobus mystery (after 2017’s Spring Break) takes curmudgeonly violinist and teacher Jacobus, who’s blind, from his home in the Berkshires to Utah to attend a performance by his protégée, Grammy-winning Yumi...
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Gerald Elias. Level Best, $16.99 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-6851-2170-9
This exceptional series launch from Elias (the Daniel Jacobus mysteries) introduces Jefferson Dance, who steps in as deputy sheriff of Loomis City, Utah, during the town’s annual Roundtree Days Festival Weekend. The event, which celebrates a...
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Gerald Elias. Level Best, $16.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-6851-2238-6
Elias’s sprightly eighth Daniel Jacobus mystery (after 2021’s Cloudy with a Chance of Murder) takes curmudgeonly violinist Jacobus from his home in the Berkshires to London, where he plans to see Yumi Shinagawa, his friend and concertmaster of the...
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