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Gerald Elias

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Born

in New York City, The United States

Website

https://mysteriesandmusic.com

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Crime, Music

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Donna Leon John Le Carre Craig Johnson ...more

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For decades, Gerald Elias has brought joy to countless mystery fans and concertgoers alike.

His dozen novels include the critically acclaimed Daniel Jacobus mystery series, set in the dark corners of the classical music world. An audiobook of Murder at Royal Albert, the eighth installment of the series, features musical excerpts by the Boston Symphony and Elias himself, and was declared “an altogether delightful experience” by AudioFile Magazine. His standalone Western mystery, Roundtree Days, was a 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion finalist. (Look for the sequel in 2026!)

Elias’s many short stories have appeared in such prestigious magazines and anthologies as Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Coolest American Stories 2023, and in his o ...more

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What are you currently working on?

Gerald Elias Right now I am in between novels. My most recent mystery, Spring Break, will be released in the US on August 1. I plan on starting my next one in the …moreRight now I am in between novels. My most recent mystery, Spring Break, will be released in the US on August 1. I plan on starting my next one in the fall. It will be based on Vivaldi's concerto "Summer" from the Four Seasons, and will most likely involve a murder at a music festival. In the meantime, I've been working on a couple of short stories to keep me busy. "Silent Sonnet" is a contemporary Western in which the literary agent of a famous Wallace Stegner-like author is mysteriously murdered at a wilderness campground. In something totally different, I'm polishing off a short story called "Tutti Frutti," based upon my real life visit to the Social Security office. One never knows from what font inspiration will flow!(less)

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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Gerald Elias This story isn't exactly two sentences. It's more of a visual. Can you figure out what happened?
A FAMILY PLOT

ABSALOM SEWALL PIKE
Husband and Father…moreThis story isn't exactly two sentences. It's more of a visual. Can you figure out what happened?
A FAMILY PLOT

ABSALOM SEWALL PIKE
Husband and Father
September 27, 1629-September 27, 1674
The Hand of Death
Is never Known
Till too Late
Man’s Dust is Blown

MEHITABEL SEWALL PIKE
Wife and Mother
May 9, 1623-September 27, 1674
Our Sins We Carry
To the Grave
May it please the Lord
Ye Shall be Saved

Our Lord alone
Knows him He’ll save.
But Worms will crawl
Into each Grave

ABIGAIL SEWALL PIKE
Daughter
August 14, 1662-September 28, 1674
Though Misdeeds
may not be Blest
All Mortals
Seek Eternal Rest

UNNAMED
September 24, 1675-September 26, 1674
A Life so Brief
Yet filled with Grief

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Average rating: 3.64 · 1,226 ratings · 269 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Devil's Trill (Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Danse Macabre (Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #2) 3.77 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death and the Maiden: A Daniel Jacobus Mystery 3.56 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death and Transfiguration (Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #4) 3.46 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring Break (Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #6) 4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playing with Fire (Daniel Jacobus Mystery, #5) 3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Royal Albert: A Daniel Jacobus Mystery (The Daniel Jacobus Mysteries Book 8) 4.32 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cloudy With a Chance of Murder: A Daniel Jacobus Mystery (The Daniel Jacobus Mysteries Book 7) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Symphonies & Scorpions: Ramblings of a Wand’ring Minstrel on the Boston Symphony’s Far East Tour of 2014 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beethoven Sequence 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Old Franz Eisich recited their names, one by one, as he passed by their graves on his mower. Sewalls, Pikes, Johns. The Spencers. He knew all the families by heart. The names, and the dates and epitaphs, too. Except for those under slate stones so old that all the writing had worn off long before he ever got there. Or the little ones that only had the initials of the babes who died in their mother

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“Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about the progress of life, from its fragile beginnings through its joys and turbulence and on to its end, its magnificent end.”
― Gerald Elias, Death and Transfiguration

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“tension and intensity are two different animals.”
― Gerald Elias, Devil's Trill

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