From Anne Rice's official site's summary of Violin, an amusing quote from the end:

"The dramatic interplay of their ambitions, dreams, and desires are the stuff of an operatic tale full of passion and music. Fortissimo in feeling -- a novel in the unique Anne Rice grand manner. Anne is flattered by the above, obviously she did not write this."

WOW! I was JUST wondering if she'd written these little self-aggrandizing summaries of her novels herself ... ;)

Also, yes, the violin music in the background does get really, really old really, really fast.