num_pages: 265
description: The fourth novel in Andrea Camilleri's savagely funny, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano. 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...
language: English
title: The Voice of the Violin
titlecomplete: The Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4)
characters: Giuseppe Fazio, Gallo, Officer Agatino Catarella, Orazio Guttadauro, Commissario Salvo Montalbano, Mimì Augello
genres: Fiction, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Italian Literature, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 9046
places: Sicily
series: Inspector Montalbano
publisher: Picador