And although Harrod-Eagles unabashedly hints at a clue that might settle everything, no one bit of information answers every question. Like the other developments here, including more killings, the new relationship rings resoundingly true. As Slider learns that Austen had been pressuring a fellow musician to continue an affair, he himself is drawn to Austen's playing partner, and muddies his marriage and the investigation by beginning a romance with her. Although the antipathetic Austen seemed to have no life outside her modest orchestra job, a visit to her dingy bedsit turns up a Stradivarius worth at least a million pounds other clues lead to a second residence, a luxury penthouse, as well as the extravagant habit of driving to Birmingham just to buy a certain olive oil. When a woman is found naked and dead in a vacant apartment in West London, the letter ``T'' carved into one foot, a callus on her neck leads Inspector Bill Slider to identify the victim as a violinist, one Anne-Marie Austen. A beleaguered British detective struggles to solve a series of sinister murders in this masterful debut.
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