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 unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome black wells to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.
Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
Brand: Vintage
$12.00 - $27.27
- UPC:
- 9780679753117
- Maximum Purchase:
- 3 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 1996-01-03
- Release Date:
- 1996-01-03
- Author:
- Michael Dibdin
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- 0