Plot

Dozing off en route to a funeral, Montalbano is awakened when his driver crashes next to a seemingly abandoned villa. He later investigates the property alone, finding a corpse and uncovering the secret lives of many people in Vigata.

Michela Licalzi is beautiful, married, has a lover and is found dead, naked, suffocated in her home. The investigations initially entrusted to Commissioner Montalbano are then removed and entrusted to Panzacchi. Everything suggests that the murderer is Maurizio Di Blasi who is then killed by Panzacchi's men. But when it gets in the way, the Montalbano mafia begins to investigate unofficially again. And the solution to the crime will come unexpectedly from the concert performer Cataldo Barbera and his violin, or rather from the voice of the violin that plays.—Baldinotto da Pistoia