Readers felt that they were hooked on the series and able to finish the book quickly. There is great suspense, and readers loved the way that Michael Dibdin told the story here. Zen is able to return to actual police work. His corruption in business dealings have made some exalted figures in Italian politics much richer. The scene of the crime was his home, which was highly fortified estate; all the rooms had video cameras, one of which caught the murder as it happened.
Zen wrestles with what appears to be a locked door case; he goes undercover as part of his investigation, and does so with no other help. He sees a face that he had almost forgotten about, and is now stalking him seeking vengeance.
Fans of the novel have described the book as a virtuoso performance from Michael Dibdin. Some found that they and their families had enjoyed the novel so much that the book began to fall apart on them.
Some found this series to be unique, and intriguing to them, this novel included. Some wish that there were more books to the series, but since Michael Dibdin is deceased that does not seem likely. After Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell to his death in St. Vatican housekeepers want the answer to be suicide, and they want it carved stone.
Zen, who is on call, wants to oblige and then get back to spending time with his girlfriend at her place. Things do not seem to be that easy for him. Getting answers will not be easy. The fabled Cabal. How big of a threat is it? Does it reach far? Does it even exist? Fans of the novel see that Michael Dibdin is great at drawing the reader in, at making them realize he is the one in total control of things. Some may not enjoy the book, as Michael Dibdin is not for everyone, but it is well worth the read.
Once again, this author is able to shock readers who are not easy to shock. This novel will not make readers feel like they have been cheated.
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Navigation Home Characters Authors. But this time, having alienated superiors with his impolitic zealousness in every previous posting, Zen is determined not to make waves.
And when Zen becomes embroiled in a romantic intrigue involving love-sick gangsters and prostitutes who pass themselves off as Albanian refugees, all Naples comes to resemble the set of the Mozart opera of the same title. Bawdy, suspenseful, and splendidly farcical, the result is an irresistible offering from a maestro of mystery.
Dead Lagoon. 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. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting. In Cabal, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities.
An apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal within The Knights of Columbus. A discovery among the medieval manuscripts of the Vatican Library leads to a second death, Zen travels to Milan, where he faces a final, dramatic showdown.
Richly textured, wickedly entertaining, Cabal taps the mysterious beauty of Italy in a thriller that challenges our beliefs about love, allegiance, history, and power—and the lengths to which we will go to protect them against the truth. 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.
The magnate was killed on a heavily fortified Sardinian estate, where every room was monitored by video cameras. And that same killer, elusive, implacable, and deranged, may now be stalking Zen. Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist.
Was Miletti truly the victim of professionals? Or might his kidnapper be someone closer to home: his preening son Daniele, with his million-lire wardrobe and his profitable drug business? His daughter, Cinzia, whose vapid beauty conceals a devastating secret? The perverse Silvio, or the eldest son Pietro, the unscrupulous fixer who manipulates the plots of others for his own ends?
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