The Voice of the Violin

Andrea Camilleri

Dec 2010 · Inspector Montalbano mysteries Book 4 · Pan Macmillan

About this eBook

The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is the fourth novel in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.

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 bluntly.

Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging 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 . . .

The Voice of the Violin is followed by the fifth novel in this compelling mystery series, Excursion to Tindari.

Ratings and reviews

Quotation marks, apostrophies and accented letters are completely missing! Salvo does NOT work in Ligta, have an associate called Mim, and is not trying to adopt a boy called Franois. Google should be ashamed of selling a book in this condition, and, from the sample, it appears that Excursion to Tindari has exactly the same faults, so I gought the Kindle version instead, which is fine. Google, please sort this out! The story, though, is excellent - buy this book, but not from Google (I don't know if Kobo's version is any better).

About the author

Andrea Camilleri was one of Italy’s most famous contemporary writers. The Inspector Montalbano series, which has sold over 65 million copies worldwide, has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter’s Field, the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association’s International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. In addition to his phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series, he was also the author of the historical comic mysteries Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston. He died in Rome in July 2019.