DISSONANCE

<p>Allegra Brewster cellist and newly minted arts administrator finds herself torn between keeping her job with the SummerFest Symphony and her loyalty to its musicians. <strong>The tension rises to a higher level when she discovers the death of a central person in the conflict. </strong>Many people with ill feelings toward the victim are potential murder suspects but it is her father upon whom the police focus their attention.</p><p><br></p><p>Set at a fictional <strong>summer music festival in coastal Maine</strong> <em>Dissonance</em> explores the struggle between a nonprofit arts board and its musicians wealthy summer people and locals a besotted suitor and the former girlfriend he betrayed and a young woman's faith in her own detective skills and the obvious fact that someone close to her committed murder.</p><p><br></p><p>Filled with music references (and <strong>accompanied by a Spotify playlist</strong>) Dissonance brings the reader into the world of a summer orchestra its musicians and supporters and the small town they occupy.</p>