Michael Dibdin was een Britse auteur van detectiveromans, vooral bekend van zijn serie rond inspecteur Aurelio Zen. Zijn werken kenmerkten zich door scherpe humor, ingenieuze plots en een diepgaand inzicht in de menselijke natuur. Dibdin wist spanning meesterlijk te verweven met psychologische diepgang, en creëerde verhalen die lezers meegezogen in complexe mysteries. Zijn stijl was zowel verfijnd als toegankelijk, wat hem tot een gevierde naam in het genre maakte.
Florence, 1855. Robert Booth, een jongeman uit Boston, ontmoet in Florence zijn jeugdliefde Isabel Eakin en slaagt er al snel in uitgenodigd te worden door de illustere Engelse dichter Robert Browning. Maar dan wordt Isabel vermoord; via Dantes Inferno en Brownings eigen poëzie ontvouwt zich een ingenieus complot.
Inspecteur Aurelio Zen onderzoekt een afrekening in het maffia-milieu van Sicilië.
Politieman Aurelio Zen, die tijdelijk is overgeplaatst naar een plaatsje in het Zuid-Italiaanse Calabrië, onderzoekt de mysterieuze moord op een Italiaanse Amerikaan en krijgt te maken met een Amerikaanse miljonair die op zoek is naar een legendarische schat.
CRIME & MYSTERY. When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental - until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione D'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related? The whole affair has the whiff of political intrigue. That's enough to interest Aurelio Zen's boss at the Interior Ministry, who wants to know who is hiding what from who and why. The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky history of post-war Italy and obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime that everyone thought was as dead and buried as the victim.
Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder and Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth.
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The site where the body had been found was within the territory of the provincia di Catania, and hence under the jurisdiction of the authorities of that city. So far, so good. From a bureaucratic point of view, however, the crucial factor was where and when the crime - if indeed it was a crime - had occurred. As all those concerned were soon to learn, none of these points was susceptible of a quick or easy answer. Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting to Sicily. The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous murder case. Set against the backdrop of Catania, in the shadow of the smouldering volcano of Etna, Blood Rain is a riveting tale of violence and murder, which reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven. If you enjoyed the Inspector Zen Mystery series you may also like The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, another crime novel by Michael Dibdin.
Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction. Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. And beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world - a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre and deadly obsession.
A single-volume edition of three of the crime novels featuring Italian detective Aurelio Zen: Ratking, Vendetta and Cabal.
