Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery: 4 - Softcover

Dibdin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679753117 ISBN 13: 9780679753117

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 1996

Synopsis

The man is Aurelio Zen. The place is Venice, once his home, now the site of his reluctant homecoming. Zen is a member of the elite Italian Criminalpol squad stationed in Rome: a middle-aged man disgusted with - but begrudgingly resigned to - the political bog of corruption and cynicism within which he has to work. Intelligent, weary, urbane, pensive, Zen has been the complex heart of Michael Dibdin's most highly praised books. And now, he's back. He's back in Venice after a long absence, and under false pretenses: ostensibly to investigate the "haunting" of an old family friend but actually, and illegally, to find the body - dead or alive - of the missing patriarch of a wealthy American family. With no real authority and no leads, Zen is reminded that amid the shifting light and water of the lagoons, nothing is what it seems - not even the skeletal corpse discovered, unburied, on the Isle of the Dead. The questions of how and why it came to be there are shrouded in mystery, confusion, and an indeterminate but growing threat of violence. And they are questions that will inexorably draw Zen into a confrontation with the veiled, seemingly unknowable truths about his own life.

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Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery

Review:

"Surprisingly moving . . . a first-rate mystery and a fine novel."--Washington Post Book World"Dibdin's plot is as elegantly elaborate as the crisscrossing canals of Venice."--Newsday"The author has transcended his own superb craftsmanship by working [two] story lines into a structure of pure steel, and by making it the foundation of a serious study of modern-day Venice."--The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679753117
• ISBN 13: 9780679753117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320