SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
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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