A thriller by Paul Adam set in the world of rare violins. When Tomaso Rainaldi, an elderly violin-maker in Cremona, is murdered, the investigation leads to a rich collector in Venice, an old murder, an enigmatic Englishman and a trail of missing instruments – perhaps even a rival to Stradivari’s famous “Messiah”.
Published in paperback by Time Warner Books, London.
A paperback in good secondhand condition, with a price sticker on the back – please see photos for condition details.
Paul Adam, born in 1958 in Coventry, is an English novelist. He studied law at the University of Nottingham and worked as a journalist in England and Rome before turning to fiction. He has written eleven thrillers for adults, among them Sleeper (2004, also published as The Rainaldi Quartet), set in the world of rare violins, and the Max Cassidy series for younger readers, whose first book won the Salford Children's Book Award.
He lives in Sheffield. His novel The Hardanger Riddle appeared in 2019.
