Michael Dibdin, Author . Pantheon $21 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-42188-4
In Dibdin's eighth diverting mystery to feature Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol unit, the hard-to-kill detective is still recuperating from his last adventure, Blood Rain
(2000), which left him with a collapsed lung, broken ribs and
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Michael Dibdin, Author . Pantheon $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-42269-0
The ninth outing for Dibdin's Italian cop Aurelio Zen ranks right up there with such earlier triumphs in the series as Cabal
and Dead Lagoon
. The theft from the morgue of a partially mummified body, originally discovered in an abandoned...
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Michael Dibdin, Author . Vintage $12.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-307-27588-2
In Gold Dagger–winner Dibdin's fine 10th Aurelio Zen mystery (after 2004's Mesuda
), the neurotic ace detective investigates the murder of Bologna millionaire entrepreneur Lorenzo Curti, who was found in his Audi impaled on a Parmesan...
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Michael Dibdin, Author . Pantheon $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-42521-9
The wry 11th and final Insp. Aurelio Zen mystery (after 2006's Back to Bologna
) will leave the series' many fans in renewed mourning for Gold Dagger–winner Dibdin (1947-2007). When the corpse of American attorney Peter Newman is...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-76854-8
Italian police commissioner Aurelio Zen investigates the kidnapping of a Perugian industrialist. Winner of the Gold Dagger Award. (June)
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Michael Dibdin, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-70614-1
The cast of Dibdin's mid-19th-century literary puzzler features a Beatrice, an Isabel, an Elizabeth and even an Edith, but its true heroine is Florence, the Italian city where the twisting tale plays out. In letters to an old friend in America,...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Summmit Books $17.5 (241p) ISBN 978-0-671-69545-3
Dibdin's ( The Tryst ) fifth novel is a deliciously mean-spirited satirical tale of murder and betrayal. The unnamed narrator is a 40-year-old teacher of English as a second language, by his own description ``damaged goods . . . another over-educated
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Michael Dibdin, Author Pantheon Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44221-9
Poets and psychopathology converge in another crime thriller as Dibdin, known best for his Aurelio Zen procedurals set in Italy, writes about a religious cult led by a Blake-obsessed fanatic. The evil in this tale, however, which is at once more...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Pantheon Books $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-40915-8
The cynical Venetian inspector fears that his employers view his growing older as a liability when, in this seventh, involving Aurelio Zen mystery (after A Long Finish), they assign him to a lowly post within the Interior Ministry of Rome. Sent to...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Summit Books $17.45 (168p) ISBN 978-0-671-69543-9
Aileen Macklin, at 35, is trapped in a joyless marriage, and her job as a psychiatrist in an underfunded social program in Thatcher's England offers few rewards; she is ``absolutely certain that she is a person to whom nothing more would ever happen.
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Michael Dibdin, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (260p) ISBN 978-0-385-42120-1
Corruption in high places, underworld skulduggery and a vendetta among mountainfolk are ingredients for murder in this literate, suspenseful thriller. An intruder guns down an eccentric Sardinian billionaire, his wife and two guests in his seemingly
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Michael Dibdin, Author Doubleday Books $18.5 (241p) ISBN 978-0-385-46806-0
Emblematic of the many deceptions and misconceptions upon which the latest stylish Aurelio Zen mystery turn are the layered, radical fashions of a hot new Italian designer named Falco. Introduced in Ratking , Zen is an investigator for Rome's...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Pantheon Books $21 (297p) ISBN 978-0-679-43349-1
Always an erudite crime writer, Dibdin places complex characters into exacting plot puzzles that unfold in evocative prose rich in historical and geographic color. In the fifth case (the last was Cabal) featuring his Italian policeman Aurelio Zen,...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Pantheon Books $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-44272-1
In this spry new mystery constructed along comically operatic lines, Italian copper Aurelio Zen (Dead Lagoon, etc.) finds that his quest for the simpler life leads to a new beat in Naples and to a series of convoluted criminal conundrums. A garbage...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Pantheon Books $3.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-40429-0
Family truths and family lies, as gnarled and hidden as prized local truffles, beat at the heart of the newest case for Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, last seen in Cosi Fan Tutti (1997). Sent in early fall from Rome to the Piedmont to...
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Michael Dibdin, Author Pantheon Books $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-42098-6
A middle-aged British journalist based in Seattle tracks down his deceased wife's first husband in this novel of nostalgia and obsession, a departure for Dibdin, author of the popular Aurelio Zen mystery series. After the death of his American wife,
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