The music isn't just playing. It’s keeping the city alive. And someone is turning the volume down.
Dekker Kohl is a Virtuoso—a forensic specialist who reads the "harmonic echoes" left behind at crime scenes. Or he was, until his gift started fading. He thought it was just a creative dry spell.
He was wrong.
When a fellow musician is found strangled with a violin string, the crime scene is eerily silent. No echoes. No fingerprints. Just a void where the city’s magic used to be.
As the "Whimsy"—the literal life-force of the city—is drained away one murder at a time, Dekker is forced into a race against a silent clock. To find the killer, he’ll have to master a dying magic system he no longer trusts.
Because if the music stops, the city doesn't just go quiet. It dies.
A gritty, high-stakes Urban Fantasy for fans of Rivers of London and The Dresden Files, featuring a "hard" magic system based on the lethal laws of music theory.
