Gerald Elias

Daniel Jacobus

1 - Devil's Trill (Aug-2009)
2 - Danse Macabre (Sep-2010)
3 - Death and the Maiden (Aug-2011)
4 - Death and Transfiguration (Jun-2012)
5 - Playing with Fire (Sep-2016)
6 - Spring Break (Aug-2017)

---

• 

  Devil's Trill
  

  • Aug-2009
  • / Amateur Sleuth
  • 

  Daniel Jacobus - 1
  

  From concert violinist Gerald Elias comes this debut set in the classical music world about the theft of a priceless violin. Daniel Jacobus is a blind, reclusive, crotchety violin teacher living in self-imposed exile in rural New England. He spend...

---

• 

  Danse Macabre
  

  • Sep-2010
  • / Amateur Sleuth
  • 

  Daniel Jacobus - 2
  

  Daniel Jacobus, reclusive blind concert master and amateur sleuth, returns to solve a most despicable crime and to clear an innocent man Just after his Carnegie Hall swansong and before his imminent departure for retirement in France, beloved violini...

---

• 

  Death and the Maiden
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Amateur Sleuth
  • 

  Daniel Jacobus - 3
  

  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 T...

---

• 

  Death and Transfiguration
  

  • Jun-2012
  • / Amateur Sleuth
  • 

  Daniel Jacobus - 4
  

  The fourth book in the series featuring the irascible but loveable amateur sleuth Daniel Jacobus Vaclav Herza, the last of a dying breed of great but tyrannical conductors, has been music director of Harmonium for forty years. The world famous to...

---

• 

  Playing with Fire
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / Mystery
  • 

  Daniel Jacobus - 5
  

  The latest Daniel Jacobus mystery holds a mirror to the glittery façade of the concert world, delving into the multimillion-dollar sleight-of-hand of violin dealing... When an anxious phone call from obscure violinmaker Amadeo Borlotti disturbs ...

---

• 

  Spring Break
  

  • Aug-2017
  • / Mystery
  • 

  Daniel Jacobus - 6
  

  When 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 harass...

---

• 

  The Beethoven Sequence
  

  • Sep-2020
  • / Thriller
  • 

  What if the president was a political outsider with no experience in government? What if he was mentally unstable? What if he started eliminating his political opponents, one by one? What if the President of the United States was insan...

---

• 

  Cloudy with a Chance of Murder
  

  • Dec-2021
  • / Mystery
  • 

  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...

---

• 

  Roundtree Days
  

  • Aug-2022
  • / General Fiction
  • 

  Simmering just under the surface of the levity of Roundtree Days, an annual festival celebrating the sensational hit television series, Roundtree, a clash of cultures between traditional and progressive values threatens to tear apart a proud Western ...

---

• 
  

  
  

---

• 

  Murder at the Royal Albert
  

  • Jan-2023
  • / Mystery
  • 

  A packed house at London's famed Royal Albert Hall. Gustav Mahler's monumental 6th Symphony, with its three massive hammer strokes of Fate. The first and the second go by uneventfully. But then, the third! Will Mahler's third hammer st...

---