I just started reading the Musician's Daughter, by Susanne Dulap, and I'm on page 28. All that has happened so far is the main character Theresa's father has died. He was a musician so Theresa has a love for music. She always wanted to play the violin but when her father dies and his violin goes missing and music becomes even more important to her. She wants to find out who killed her father and what happened that night through trying to find his violin. She is struggling with this though, because nobody will tell her anything about her father. To add to the clues, when they found her father's body, he had a mysterious gold watch. Theresa was confused by this because she though the murdered would have taken this because it seemed valuable.I think the way the author set up the plot so far was interest because within the first 5 pages you know Theresa's dad is dead. As soon as they tell you her dad is dead it switches to flashbacks of memories of her dad and then describes the setting for a while after that. You don't know anything about the murder for a while because as soon as it tells you what happened it just describes the setting. Theresa's family seems pretty rich at the beginning because her family has a nurse to care for the children and the way the author describes their house makes it seem luxurious but then Theresa explains how they had to bury their father with many other poor people so it is a little confusing. The thing I liked best so far was the fact that the story just started jumping in as soon as you started reading but I didn't really like all the description that followed the intro.
