Gerald Elias

Daniel Jacobus, reclusive blind concert master and amateur sleuth, returns to solve a most despicable crime and to clear an innocent man when violinist and humanitarian Rene Allard is brutally murdered. Jacobus follows a trail of broken violins and broken lives as it leads inexorably to the truth, and to his own mortal peril.

A stolen Stradivarius, a strangled teacher of child prodigies; blind violinist and amateur sleuth, Daniel Jacobus, is not only the chief investigator of these misdeeds, he's the prime suspect! The police hot on his tail, Jacobus roams the bucolic Berkshires, hallowed Carnegie Hall, and tradition bound Japan, searching for answers only he can see. With alluring student Yumi and jazz loving Nathaniel at his side, Jacobus feels his way through self doubt and darkness.