54 pages • 1 hour read
The Violin Conspiracy
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Overview
The Violin Conspiracy is the debut novel by classical musician Brendan Slocumb. It follows a young Black musician on the rise and the theft of a priceless heirloom violin. The novel deals with themes of racism, family, greed and commerce, and the value of art. This study guide is for the 2022 paperback edition from Knopf Doubleday.
Content Warning: This novel contains discussions of racism and enslavement, graphic descriptions of torture, and allusions to sexual assault.
Plot Summary
Ray McMillian is a young Black violin player preparing to take on the world-famous Tchaikovsky Competition in a few months’ time. He’s staying with his girlfriend, Nicole, at a hotel in New York. After he returns home from New York, he opens his violin case to discover the violin is missing, and a ransom note for $5 million was left in its place. Very quickly, the theft is picked up by the FBI and the press because Ray’s violin was a priceless Stradivarius worth $10 million. Ray knows that there are two likely suspects in the theft: the Marks family and his own blood relatives. He goes to confront his mother to see if she knows anything about his missing violin, and he becomes ostracized from his family.
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