WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 'Tremendously exciting.' RUTH RENDELL 'Energetic and genre-stretching.' GUARDIAN AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not ...
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WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 'Tremendously exciting.' RUTH RENDELL 'Energetic and genre-stretching.' GUARDIAN AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors - if he's still alive. 'A brilliant read, enjoyed every page.' 5* reader review 'Brilliantly plotted and beautifully written . . . Great background and attention to detail.' 5* reader review 'If you like anything Italian you'll like this.' 5* reader review PRAISE FOR MICHAEL DIBDIN AND THE INSPECTOR ZEN SERIES: 'He wrote with real fire.' IAN RANKIN 'A maestro of crime writing.' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the genre's finest stylists . . . And Zen himself is a masterly creation: he is anti-heroic and pragmatic but obstinate, cunning and positively burdened with integrity.' GUARDIAN 'Dibdin tells a rollicking good tale that you want both to read fast, because of its gripping storyline, and to linger over, to savour the evocative descriptions of place and mood.' INDEPENDENT 'One of British crime fiction's most distinguished and distinctive voices.' ANDREW TAYLOR 'Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader.' Ruth Rendell 'Zen is one of the greatest creations of contemporary crime fiction.' OBSERVER 'I love the way these books capture the atmosphere and contradictions of Italy.' 5* reader review 'Aurelio Zen novels are a great treat.' 5* reader review 'There is no better writer than Dibdin. His books are a joy to read.' 5* reader review 'Love these books . . . I am sure you will get hooked too!' 5* reader review
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I've been reading Donna Leon's mysteries centered around Commissario Guido Brunnetti, a detective in Venice, Italy. As a result, I came across an interview with Donna Leon from 2009 where she talked about reading Michael Dibdin's books about a detective in Italy too.
Michael Dibdin was a Brit who wrote about Aurelio Zen, an altogether different personality from Brunnetti. Dibdin's writing style is very different from Leon's as you'd expect. I enjoyed reading Ratking, the first in Dibdin's series about Zen and I bought several of the books at one time from Alibris -- all used books in excellent condition. Unfortunately, Dibdin died in Seattle some years ago, but I look forward to reading more about Detective Zen.
