El misterio del último Stradivarius

If every novel can represent a world, this new novel by Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers represents—and does so very effectively—two. The last violin crafted by the renowned luthier Antonio Stradivari serves as both the protagonist and the common denominator of two storylines that ultimately merge into a single narrative: a crime novel in the vein of *noir* fiction—sparked by a contemporary event (the murder of a father and daughter in a small Paraguayan town)—interwoven with a richly crafted historical novel that traces the violin’s journey through the centuries as it passes from one owner to another over the course of nearly three hundred years.