The Vanishing Violinist

Joan Spencer is beginning to settle into comfortable midlife when her daughter's amiable fiance blows into town, and with him, an entourage of professional violinists, their host families, and a swarm of unspoken rivalries. It's not long before Joan and her own fiance are drawn into the creative and competitive world of the musicians. In the ambitious world of classical violin competitions, it takes little to start a fire. When a seductive Brazilian violinist's prized instrument is stolen, each finger points to another.When the distraught Brazilian vanishes without a trace, things truly begin to unravel. Caught in the middle is Joan's son-in-law, the primary suspect, and it is up to her to uncover the simmering tensions beneath the players, and string together a theft a disappearance and a murder.