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A quartet strung out and other nerve-shredding nefariousness
Crime fiction round-up with MAT COWARD

A jobbing viola player is recruited to fill a mysterious vacancy in one of Britain's most famous string quartets, in The Tooth

Tattoo by Peter Lovesey (Sphere, £8.99).

There's something a bit peculiar about the whole affair but the lure of a lucrative and musically challenging residency in Bath is too much to resist.

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