Involved in plans to establish the town of Kilstane as a music festival center, Sir Nicholas Torrance faces problems when a corpse is found in the main concert venue. Sent to his aid is Detective Inspector Lesley Gunn, who is still emotionally bruised from their last encounter. She becomes enmeshed not just in a murder investigation, but in musical puzzles taxing all her powers of deduction. John Burke presents an entertaining mystery, and a tantalizing question of whether the laird and the sleuth will at last come together, or whether a tempestuous woman violinist will wreck things for them and others.