First published 2023
Renowned conductor Elias Stern lives a double life, leading a prestigious orchestra by day and indulging his monstrous appetites at night. But when a young protégé uncovers Stern's sinister secrets, a high-stakes confrontation threatens to destroy them both. This riveting true-crime biography lays bare the price of artistic genius and the dark impulses that can lurk behind the facade of respectability.
Genres: fiction, drama, art, 20th-century, crime, biography-memoir, music, 21st-century
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: dark-secrets, high-stakes-confrontation, sinister-double-life
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
224 pages · Hardcover · Mandel Vilar Press
Content warnings: violence