The Violin Conspiracy; Brendan Slocum (Vintage Books)

• Book Club Pick - Good Morning America
• One of the Best Mystery Books of the Year - Washington Post
• A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Goodreads, Air Mail, Book Riot

Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise--undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world--when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather's heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.

• About the Author:
• Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. He is currently working on his second novel.