A review by marystevens
The Tooth Tattoo by Peter Lovesey

4.0

Peter Diamond mystery #13 takes place in Vienna and Bath and involves the famous Staccatti String Quartet, a missing violinist and three young Japanese women, all classical music fans. . The first woman is a cello thief. We meet the other two as corpses, one sporting a tattoo on her tooth of a quaver and the other holding an ivory netsuke. I learned a lot about the world of string quartets and some about the Yakuza, (the Japanese mafia), and the trade in ivory - elephant and mastodon. If that doesn't intrigue you, I don't know what will!