La voz del violín

Synopsis of La voz del violín

«La voz del violín» is the crime novel by Andrea Camilleri featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano, published by Salamandra in paperback (251 pages, in Spanish).

In the apparent calm of Sicily, Inspector Salvo Montalbano investigates the death of a young wife of a Bolognese doctor, found in her chalet next to a violin kept in its case. The disappearance of her jewels and of an unbalanced relative complicates the case, which his superiors want to close quickly, but Montalbano follows his own hunches and ends up moving to the edge of legality to unmask an uncomfortable truth.

Fourth installment in the Inspector Montalbano series; the original novel was published in 1997 under the title «La voce del violino».