"Murder in C Sharp Minor" is the most compelling of the Dash Ramblar Mystery Series. A Russian concert pianist comes to perform in Great Oaks and is murdered before he sets foot on the stage at Moss Winery. The suspects are a mixed bag of arts patrons, a piano tuner, a slaughterhouse owner, and other unsavory characters. The story gains momentum when one of the patrons also turns up garroted. Dash stumbles upon corpses, alibis, and witnesses, but cannot get a grasp of the motives. In the international music community, grudges go back twenty years to St. Petersburg and Warsaw. The familiar cast reappears with the affable Detective FJ Evans and Dash's paramour, Ginger Rute. It all takes place in the fertile terroir of the California Central Coast. Clyde Dorrance, an attorney from Carmel, loves live jazz and is out of his element behind the scenes of classical music. The composition unfolds with the reveal of startling liaisons which corrupt the investigation. You don't have to be a music lover or Dash Ramblar devotee to follow the fluid notes of intrigue and enigmatic measures.