It was only a kiss – or was it?

19-year-old Vanessa is a passionate and talented violinist, but she doesn’t have a clue about boys and matters of the heart. Her friend Lizzie thinks it’s time Vanessa experiences her first kiss, and a beach party at the imposing Augharourke Castle is the perfect opportunity. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger leads to the desired outcome, but Vanessa walks away from that kiss with a little more than she bargained for...

Overture is the opening sequence to the In Time to the Music series of cosy mysteries with a supernatural twist.

Professor Vanessa Naylor has a questionable gift – musical warnings that pop into her mind ahead of significant events. When a homicide occurs on college premises, Vanessa’s unusual talent might be all that can keep her one step ahead of the killer…
It’s the start of another term at Edwardston Music College. Vanessa and her colleagues are busy assessing their first-year students, among them a multi-instrumentalist prodigy, Remmy Dunford, who creates a stir on campus, but not as much as the disappearance and subsequent murder of one of the students.
After Vanessa is first on the scene to discover the body, fate keeps throwing her and Remmy in the path of dangerous events, and both of their lives are at risk unless the police can catch the culprit.
In Time to the Music is the first book in the supernatural cosy mystery series with the same title from award-winning musical fiction author Pamela Harju.