Author: Paul Adam
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
Keywords: mysteries, mayhem, felony, quartet, rainaldi
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 2007-07-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933397772
ISBN-13: 9781933397771

Well into his middle years, Gianni Castiglione has a pleasant, quiet life in Cremona. A luther - a maker and repairer of violinis - he spends most of his time adoring his grandchildren and playing chamber-quartets with the local priest, the chief of police, and a fellow aging luther, Tomaso Rainaldi. A true romantic, Rainaldi is in thrall to music’s myths, particularly the stories about the "Messiah’s Sister," a priceless, centuries-old -- and possibly imaginary -- violin. But his end is anything but romantic; the old fellow is brutally murdered and his workroom destroyed. It soon