Ray trusts only a few people, including his violist girlfriend, Nicole, and his “mentor, friend, and surrogate mother,” Janice. He has a few suspects in mind, chief among them the members of two families: the Marks clan, who claim that Ray’s great-great-grandfather, an enslaved person, took the violin from their ancestor and his own family, a collection of grasping doubters who don’t care much for Ray but do care about his valuable violin. Ray, a classical music phenom who’s about to compete in the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, discovers his violin has gone missing in his Charlotte, North Carolina, house when he opens its case, he finds only a tennis shoe and a ransom note demanding $5 million in Bitcoin.
And it happens to be worth more than $10 million. For Ray McMillian, the protagonist of Slocumb’s debut, the theft of his violin is especially painful-not only was it a gift from his beloved grandmother, it’s also a Stradivarius, one of the rarest instruments in the world. There are few worse nightmares for a musician than having a treasured instrument stolen.
A classical musician tries to find his stolen violin in this entertaining debut novel.
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