Cosi Fan Tutti: An Aurelio Zen Mystery: 5 - Softcover

Dibdin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679779116 ISBN 13: 9780679779117

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1998

Synopsis

Aurelio Zen is in Naples, commanding the lowly harbor detail. It's the first time an outsider has been given this position, but Zen is not just any outsider. He's a Criminalpol operative who works directly out of the Ministry in Rome. But with politics in Rome in flux again, Zen is satisfied with his posting; if nothing else, he's out of Headquarters' sight and mind. "I do not feel the slightest degree of professional involvement or responsibility, " he tells his staff. "Just pretend I'm not here and carry on as you always have done." Which makes them all happy and leaves Zen time for a private life as "Alfonso Zembla" - the name formed in the deaf ear of a wealthy, seductive widow with several reasons for asking Dottor Zembla's help in dissuading her daughters from marrying their possibly Mafia-associated fiances. This Zen might be able to do (his plan involves Neapolitan prostitutes masquerading as Albanian refugees) except for the sudden spate of ominous graffiti, marauding garbage truck crews, officer impersonations, and VIP disappearances he is expected to solve. Which in turn might be possible if Zen weren't being mistaken for the head of Naples' most powerful and feared clan...

About this title

Book Description

Cosi Fan Tutti is the fifth book in the Inspector Zen series from the 'maestro of crime writing', Michael Dibdin, set in the heartland of the Italian Mafia, Naples. Now a major TV series on BBC One from the producers of DCI Banks and Wallander featuring Rufus Sewell.

From the Back Cover

Posted to Naples – at his own request – Aurelio Zen is more than content with his life. At work he comes late and leaves early. His staff are loyal and he ensures that they have a vested interest in being so. He has a strong friendship with a lady of many charms, Valeria Squillace, who knows him as Alfonso Zembla, an accidental pseudonym that is proving invaluable. And then, in a way that our unconventional policeman could not have anticipated, everything falls apart.

A knifing, a series of vanished persons, a lost American, suspected Mafioso, a plot to destroy two romances and, finally, Aurelio’s missing mother, all come together to shatter his comfortable new life.

Michael Dibdin is in sparkling form in 'Cosi Fan Tutti', twisting his plot with panache.

Read by Martin Shaw

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679779116
• ISBN 13: 9780679779117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256