Michael Dibdin

Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident....

A powerful industrialist, Ruggiero Miletti, is kidnapped....

In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD....

Neopolitan businessmen, politicians and eminent mafiosi are assassinated as someone takes literally the job of cleaning up the city's tarnished image....

The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky history of postwar Italy and obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime everyone thought was dead and buried....

After his adventures in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment....

Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily....

Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it....

Recovering slowly from surgery and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be a routine and undemanding assignment....