


Longtime residents recall with dismay the disastrous festival decades earlier, when another woman died and a valuable sixteenth-century instrument-the fabled yellow viol-vanished, never to be found.Ĭubiak follows a trail of murder, kidnapping, and false identity that leads back to the calamitous night of the twin tragedies. The jubilant mood sours when an unidentified passenger is found dead on a ferry.

Sheriff Dave Cubiak enjoys a rare day off as tourists and a documentary film crew hover around the musicians. After a forty-year absence, the Viola da Gamba Music Festival has returned to the picturesque isle on the tip of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula. It's a sparkling August day on Washington Island and the resonant notes of early classical music float on the breeze toward the sailboats and ferries that ply the waters of Death's Door strait.
