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Book 1 - Aurelio Zen

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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

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2008
20 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Faber & Faber
SIZE
1.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Ang C 5 ,

A joy to read

I enjoyed the tv series and the books were recommended by a friend. I holiday in Italy, especially Rome, so I enjoyed the settings and the plot.

Trivialities ,

Fantastically melancholy take on la Bella Italia

I read all the later "Zens" ages ago, but the early ones were always somehow eluding me. Took the opp with iBookstore to remedy this and was amazed at how vividly this first novel enriches everything in the subsequent "episodes". Zen is the perfect mix of Venetian ennui, displaced Romanitas, and bureaucracy-enervated cerebral action-hero. If one s in Italy, as I often am, one can map his exploits step for step across the beautiful and degraded landscapes he polices.

I can't recommend this series of novels highly enough!

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