Michael Dibdin

After his adventures in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment....

A powerful industrialist, Ruggiero Miletti, is kidnapped....

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video....

Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it....

Recovering slowly from surgery and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be a routine and undemanding assignment....

Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident....

Neopolitan businessmen, politicians and eminent mafiosi are assassinated as someone takes literally the job of cleaning up the city's tarnished image....

To crack the secret of the Vatican, Zen must penetrate the most secret place of all: the Cabal....

The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky history of postwar Italy and obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime everyone thought was dead and buried....

Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily....

In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD....