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Title: The Voice of the Violin
Subtitle: Inspector Montalbano, Book 4
Author: Andrea Camilleri
Narrator: Mark Meadows
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-10-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is fourth in the best-selling 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.
Members Reviews:
Lose yourself in Salvo's world
Salvo Montalbano is a jerk. He cares about food and the case he is trying to solve, but everything else is less important.
Still, he is a joy to read, and the Voice of the Violin -- the fourth book of the series -- is a wonderful and complex story with plot twists and turns, mixed with endearing characters and (as always) descriptions of amazing food.
Here we finally find Catarella coming into his own, and perhaps Salvo's hard exterior cracking just a bit. Maybe Livia is a little more important than he allows to show. Maybe the way he treats Fazio, Mimi and the rest is more out of love than curmudgeon-ness.
Still, there's no doubt he is a jerk. A lovable jerk, but still a jerk.
The Montalbano stories are easy to get lost in and are enjoyable if short reads. Camilleri and his translator make an irressistable team. Not only are the characters you meet in these books attractive, but Sicily gloriously wonderful is as well.
These are expensive ebooks and I wish Amazon would offer set deals. The books are short and it is difficult to justify paying so much for each one. Come on! Why not give us a break?
Great read!
The humor thought is like the spice in Montlbano's description of the meals he enjoys. The twist at the end is doubly marvelous because we not only find out who the murderer is and why but also a delicious post mortim confirming evidence that helps to explain why the murderer is convinced he's been discovered despite what would otherwise seem merely to be circumstantial evidence against him.
Puzzlement
Montalbano is at his perplexing best keeping his staff and us readers puzzled. How doe Livia put up with him?
The violin is part of this mystery. What a great performance !
Love the series
Just discovered this series and in less then two weeks I have read ten of the books. Great plot and love humor interspersed throughout. Translator does a great job and it's hard to believe it wasn't written in English.
Good reading
If you like Montalbano in the other novels, you'll like this one as well. Good character/detective, secondary characters, plot, etc. Pretty good translation, some laugh-out-loud. Might want to start with novels 1 or 2 first, though.