Harriet Anne Marshal and the Devil's Violin is a fictional tale about a paranormal investigator who is famous for solving the unknown that people thought was paranormal related. In this case, he is investigating a local legend in a little town in the Midwest, and he gets more than he bargained for an obsessed client, a possessed Civil War soldier, zombies, and a witch that has returned from the dead from the late 1800s. She is set out for revenge in the year 2012. The witch's daughter has a violin given to her by the devil to bring darkness upon the world every time she plays it.