Tough, philosophical, and world-weary detective Aurelio Zen returns in Michael Dibdin's latest foray into the maze of Italian criminal and political entanglements.This time Zen finds himself with an assignment he'd rather have avoided...

After a decomposed body is discovered in an abandoned military tunnel, Inspector Aurelio Zen travels north to the Italian Alps to investigate. At first glance, the death appears to have been an accident. But when Zen takes a closer lo...

Having survived an explosive assassination attempt, Italian police detective Aurelio Zen finds himself convalescing at a Tuscan seaside resort town, where he is under orders to lie low until he is to testify at a much-anticipated Mafi...

Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen of Rome becomes involved in the kidnapping of Perugian industrialist Ruggiero Miletti, a case that quickly plummets into a crime of murder and leads Zen into dangerous and shocking territory in the anci...

The latest Aurelio Zen mystery follows the world-weary Venetian detective to Bologna to investigate the apparently straightforward murder of a local industrialist, embroiling him a case that quickly spirals out of control and entangle...

Italian detective Aurelio Zen is summoned by the Vatican to investigate the suicide of Prince Ludovico Ruspanti, who leaps to his death in St. Peter's basilica, and discovers a secret political organization called the Cabal. Reprint. ...

Investigating a seemingly senseless multiple murder, a Seattle detective pairs up with a bereaved teacher from St. Paul to penetrate the twisted world of a charismatic prophet who incites his followers to kill. Reprint. 17,500 first p...

Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenv...

When an advance scout for an American film company disappears, Aurelio Zen's most recent assignment in remote Calabria becomes anything but routine. Despite a savage attack that has scared the locals silent, Zen is determined to expos...

Michael Dibdin has assembled fifty-four of the most stylish, original and subversive examples of the literature of murder. Whether written by eminent practitioners such as James M. Cain or Dashiell Hammett, or distinguished 'amateurs'...

In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, t...

One of England's most critically acclaimed mystery writers offers what is at once an affectionate homage to and an audacious satire of the classic drawing room murder mystery, in which a seemingly genteel country inn is instead reveal...

Italian police inspector Michael Dibdin tries to temper his crime-fighting zeal when he is transferred to a licentious department in Naples, until he stumbles upon an operatic intrigue involving gangsters and prostitutes. Reprint. 17,...

A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of th...

Back in print after far too long, [A RICH FULL DEATH] showcases author Michael Dibdin's hilariously sardonic touch and persuasive intelligence....This is a well-plotted, well-written read, and if we feel as foolish as the narrator at ...