Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli

ISBN: 9780330492980

Picador, 2003

265 pages, Hardcover

The commissioner kept looking at him with an expression that combined contempt and commiseration, apparently discerning unmistakable signs of senile dementia in the inspector. 

"I'm going to speak very frankly, Montalbano. I don't have a very high opinion of you."

"Nor I of you," the inspector replied blunty. 

Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her ageing husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder...