An Aurelio Zen mystery. Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy American resident, but soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems.
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"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
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
—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
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Dibdin gives readers a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen. In this new mystery, Zen returns to his native Venice, searching for a missing American millionaire and encountering an assortment of corpses--including a suspiciously new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead.
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: Dead Lagoon (Hardcover)
Dibdin's Italian police detective Aurelio Zen visits his old hometown of Venice on a purely personal and pecuniary quest.
Needing money, Zen has agreed to search for the body - dead or alive - of a vanished American millionaire whose estate cannot be settled while his whereabouts are in doubt. Since this sort of side job is illegal, Zen reviews the Venice docket for a case that might give him cover. If his colleagues think it peculiar that he has been sent from Rome to investigate the "haunting" of a dotty old lady - contessa or not - they are relieved to have it off their shoulders. Zen pursues his disparate cases in between revisiting the haunts of his childhood, now hopelessly transformed, and kindling a new, possibly dangerous flame. This is a dark, richly textured and densely atmospheric novel, steeped in the beauty of history and architecture and the corruption of Italian politics. Events are more inevitable than suspenseful and Zen, solving each of his mysteries in turn, is a hero to no one, including himself.
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