Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.

"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....

Living in self-imposed exile while berating his students, blind violin instructor Daniel Jacobus attends a Carnegie Hall competition where a cursed Stradivarius is stolen and an old nemesis is brutally murdered, forcing Daniel to prove his innocence for both crimes.

Vaclav Herza, the last of a dying breed of great but tyrannical conductors, has been the long-time music director of the world-famous orchestra, Harmonium, since fleeing political turmoil in Eastern Europe for America in the mid-twentieth century. When Herza summarily dismisses the acting concertmaster, Scheherazade O'Brien, from an audition she was poised to win and awards the position to Yumi Shinagawa, a former student of blind, cantankerous violin...

The true story of a young teacher who fights against the board of education in her bid to teach underprivileged kids in a Harlem school the beauty of music through the violin.

Although Nora is determined to play the violin, her family is unhappy with the sounds that come from her practice sessions, but Nora has a surprise for them when she plays a secret song during a special evening.

A girl searches for a killer on an island where deadly sirens lurk just beneath the waves in this gripping, atmospheric debut novel. The sea holds many secrets. Moira Alexander has always been fascinated by the deadly sirens who lurk along the shores of her island town. Even though their haunting songs can lure anyone to a swift and watery grave, she gets as close to them as she can, playing her violin on the edge of the enchanted sea. When a young...

Five years of the "European concert," an event mounted and performed each year in a different European city by the Berliner Philharmoniker to celebrate their founding on May 1, 1882.

After an unsavory art dealer is found dead in his hotel room, violinmaker Giovanni Castiglione must search for an instrument once owned by famed violinist Niccolò Paganini--and solve a mystery that has gone unanswered for over a century.