{"product_id":"9781466831407","title":"The Rainaldi Quartet: A Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho would want to kill Tomaso Rainaldi, an elderly, unassuming violin-maker in the quiet Italian city of Cremona? For his friend and fellow violin-maker Gianni Castiglione, the murder is as mysterious as it is shocking. Rainaldi had few possessions, no enemies and little money. No one – least of all the police – can fathom a motive for murdering him. All he really had was an obsessive love of violins and an encyclopedic knowledge of them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what if he knew more than anyone else – not just about famous violins, but about missing violins? Ones of the caliber of the fabled Messiah, Stradivari's most sublime creation, the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa \u003c\/i\u003eof the music world. A violin now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford – and worth millions…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAided by his friend, policeman Antonio Guastafeste, Gianni starts to investigate the dead man's affairs. Affairs that reveal an appointment in Venice with the eccentric and exceedingly rich violin-collector Enrico Forlani, and a trail that winds back to a mysterious musical past – and a far from harmonious future.\u003cbr\u003eRetracing Rainaldi's steps, the two men find themselves involved in a sequence of startling events -- another murder, a mysterious Englishman, and an unscrupulous violin-dealer. A chain of events that careers across Italy and England as they become players in a game where musical instruments change hands for millions, forgery is an art form, and the preferred method of negotiation is murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by two centuries of myth, music, and mystery, \u003ci\u003eThe Rainaldi Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fascinating glimpse into a closed world – played at a rhythm that is fast-paced, furious, and unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144221835504,"sku":"9781466831407","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466831407_p0.jpg?v=1763685653","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466831407","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}