The Virtuosi Chronicles

Creativity is dying in Columbus, Ohio. And it starts with a body.

Dekker Kohl is a musical detective and a reluctant investigator for the city's hidden Conservatory. His latest case starts with a murder. Felix, his old friend and the city's secret Guardian of Whimsy, was found strangled in a German Village apartment.

Felix was only the beginning. Across the city, the music has stopped. Composers are silent, children have stopped laughing, and Whimsy itself is bleeding out.

Dekk has a unique gift: he can hear the harmonic echoes that killers leave behind. These frequencies tell the truth when witnesses lie. But as he uncovers a conspiracy older than the city, his magic begins to fail. The echoes are fading precisely when he needs them most.

Seven days. A dying city. A killer who wants to silence the world.

The world won't end when Whimsy dies. It will just stop being worth living in.

A contemporary fantasy mystery with sharp wit, a hidden institutional world, and a case where the real crime is larger than any single murder. Fans of Rivers of London will find Dekk Kohl familiar company.