Michael Dibdin bol britský autor detektívnych románov, najznámejší pre svoju sériu s inšpektorom Aureliom Zenom. Jeho diela sa vyznačovali inteligentným humorom, nápaditými zápletkami a prenikavým pohľadom na ľudskú povahu. Dibdin majstrovsky preplietal napätie s psychologickou hĺbkou, čím vytváral príbehy, ktoré čitateľov vtiahli do zložitých prípadov. Jeho štýl bol zároveň sofistikovaný aj prístupný, čo z neho robilo obľúbeného autora detektívneho žánru.
Případ komisaře Zena. Aurelio Zen, komisař kriminálního oddělení italského ministerstva vnitra, je pověřen vyšetřováním únosu Ruggiera Milettiho, hlavy významné podnikatelské rodiny v Perugii. Pátrání po pachatelích únosu a posléze i vraždy se postupně proměňuje v neúprosný a nervy drásající zápas, v němž jedinou Zenovou šancí na úspěch je rozkrýt temný svět pečlivě střežených osobních tajemství, zájmů a intrik hned několika podezřelých.
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, the first novel he appears in, Zen himself has been assigned to do some law bending. Officials in a high government ministry want him to finger someone--anyone--for the murder of an eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics.
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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.
A classic country house murder unfolds with familiar characters like the colonel and the clergyman. Dorothy and Rosemary follow the clues to reveal the killer, but Eventide Lodge holds unexpected surprises.