WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 'Tremendously exciting.' RUTH RENDELL 'Energetic and genre-stretching.' GUARDIAN AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not ...
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WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 'Tremendously exciting.' RUTH RENDELL 'Energetic and genre-stretching.' GUARDIAN AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors - if he's still alive. 'A brilliant read, enjoyed every page.' 5* reader review 'Brilliantly plotted and beautifully written . . . Great background and attention to detail.' 5* reader review 'If you like anything Italian you'll like this.' 5* reader review PRAISE FOR MICHAEL DIBDIN AND THE INSPECTOR ZEN SERIES: 'He wrote with real fire.' IAN RANKIN 'A maestro of crime writing.' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the genre's finest stylists . . . And Zen himself is a masterly creation: he is anti-heroic and pragmatic but obstinate, cunning and positively burdened with integrity.' GUARDIAN 'Dibdin tells a rollicking good tale that you want both to read fast, because of its gripping storyline, and to linger over, to savour the evocative descriptions of place and mood.' INDEPENDENT 'One of British crime fiction's most distinguished and distinctive voices.' ANDREW TAYLOR 'Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader.' Ruth Rendell 'Zen is one of the greatest creations of contemporary crime fiction.' OBSERVER 'I love the way these books capture the atmosphere and contradictions of Italy.' 5* reader review 'Aurelio Zen novels are a great treat.' 5* reader review 'There is no better writer than Dibdin. His books are a joy to read.' 5* reader review 'Love these books . . . I am sure you will get hooked too!' 5* reader review
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Add this copy of Ratking to cart. $8.97, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by Faber & Faber.
Add this copy of Ratking to cart. $9.00, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by Faber & Faber.
Add this copy of Ratking to cart. $9.21, good condition, Sold by M Godding Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Devizes, WILTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1988 by Faber & Faber.
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Good. Very Good Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published in 1988'. No additional printings are indicated. There is somechipping to the half title page. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
Add this copy of Ratking Aurelio Zen 01 to cart. $10.93, new condition, Sold by Books2anywhere rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fairford, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by Faber & Faber.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Add this copy of Ratking to cart. $120.48, like new condition, Sold by Peter Shellard rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Quinton, NORTHANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published by Faber, 1988.
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1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper, some slight page tanning as is usual with this book. An exceptionally nice copy of the first of the author's Aurelio Zen crime novels.
Add this copy of Ratking to cart. $176.83, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1988 by Faber and Faber.
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None. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. A first edition copy of Dibdin's Aurelio Zen detective novel, which won the 'Gold Dagger' award in 1988, presented in the original unclipped dust wrapper. First Edition. Â In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Â This work, published in 1989, is the first of Dibdin's Aurelio Zen crime novels. This series follows the Italian police commissario and his investigation of a kidnapping and murder case. This novel was adapted for television by the BBC, where it aired in 2011. Â Michael Dibdin (1947-2007) was a British crime writer, whose best works follow Aurelio Zen. Dibdin lived in Italy for four years, where he was a professor, and eventually settled in Seattle, Washington. Other works written by Dibdin include 'The Last Sherlock Holmes Story', 'A Rich Full Death', and 'the Dying of the Light'. Â Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minimal bumping to the extremities and the spine. Dust wrapper is excellent with minimal to no edge wear to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very clean with age-toning to margins of text. Near Fine.
Add this copy of Ratking (Signed By Author) to cart. $319.24, like new condition, Sold by Peter Shellard rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Quinton, NORTHANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published by Faber, 1988.
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1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. Signed by the author. Very nice copy of the first Aurelio Zen crime novel, set in Perugia, where the head of a powerful local family has been kidnapped.
Add this copy of Ratking (Zen) to cart. $2.28, very good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Faber and Faber.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
Add this copy of Ratking (Zen) to cart. $2.28, good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Faber and Faber.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
Add this copy of Ratking (Zen) to cart. $3.22, very good condition, Sold by Jenhams rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dundee, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Faber and Faber.
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Very Good condition, some tanning to page margins. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
I've been reading Donna Leon's mysteries centered around Commissario Guido Brunnetti, a detective in Venice, Italy. As a result, I came across an interview with Donna Leon from 2009 where she talked about reading Michael Dibdin's books about a detective in Italy too.
Michael Dibdin was a Brit who wrote about Aurelio Zen, an altogether different personality from Brunnetti. Dibdin's writing style is very different from Leon's as you'd expect. I enjoyed reading Ratking, the first in Dibdin's series about Zen and I bought several of the books at one time from Alibris -- all used books in excellent condition. Unfortunately, Dibdin died in Seattle some years ago, but I look forward to reading more about Detective Zen.
