The Rainaldi Quartet (Gianni and Guastafeste 1) (Volume 1)

About this book

Gianni Castiglione has a pleasant quiet life in Cremona. A luthiera maker and repairer of violinshe spends most of his time adoring his grandchildren and playing chamber-quartets with the local priest the chief of police and a fellow aging luthier Tomaso Rainaldi. Rainaldi is in thrall to musics myths particularly the stories about the Messiahs Sister a priceless centuries-old and possibly imaginary violin. When Rainaldi is brutally murdered and his workroom destroyed it becomes clear that violins had something to do with his death and the chief of police needs Castigliones knowledge of the luthiers world. Following the clues will take the two men deep into musical history.