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Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking, which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007. |
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-307-38672-4 (0-307-38672-4) | August 2008 | $ 13.95
When an advance scout for an American film company disappears, Aurelio Zen's most recent assignment in remote Calabria becomes anything but routine. Despite a savage attack that has scared the locals silent, Zen is determined to expose the truth. To make matters more complicated, a group of dangerous strangers, led by... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-307-27588-2 (0-307-27588-4) | September 2006 | $ 13.95
In the latest installment in his critically acclaimed Italian mystery series, Michael Didbin sends Aurelio Zen to Italy’s culinary capital, Bologna, where he discovers that some cases are not quite what they appear to be.
When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-7608-6 (1-4000-7608-0) | February 2005 | $ 13.95
After a decomposed body is discovered in an abandoned military tunnel, Inspector Aurelio Zen travels north to the Italian Alps to investigate. At first glance, the death appears to have been an accident. But when Zen takes a closer look, a mysterious tattoo begins to tell a much more sinister tale... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-71925-7 (0-375-71925-3) | September 2003 | $ 12.95
Having survived an explosive assassination attempt, Italian police detective Aurelio Zen finds himself convalescing at a Tuscan seaside resort town, where he is under orders to lie low until he is to testify at a much-anticipated Mafia trial. The quiet—and the boredom are relieved by the pleasant distraction of the beautiful... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-375-70009-5 (0-375-70009-9) | July 2003 | $ 12.00
A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around.
When the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction | 978-0-375-70010-1 (0-375-70010-2) | July 2003 | $ 13.00
“One of my patients thinks somebody’s trying to kill him,” Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatrist with a fading marriage, Aileen is haunted by the glue-sniffing lad who comes to her in a panic, begging to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital for protection. Gary Dunn clearly... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | 978-0-375-72607-1 (0-375-72607-1) | August 2002 | $ 12.00
Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all that seems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinged by his wife’s unexpected death, Anthony, a middle-aged Seattle journalist, becomes obsessed with her past. He drives through the Nevada desert to locate her ex-husband looking for some unnamable... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-375-70830-5 (0-375-70830-8) | May 2001 | $ 13.00
Aurelio Zen—cynical and tough, yet worn down from years of law enforcement—has just been given the worst assignment he could imagine. He has been sent to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been known to flow like wine, and the distinction between the police... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70770-4 (0-375-70770-0) | September 2000 | $ 13.95
In Cabal, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities.
An apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal within The Knights of Columbus. A discovery among the medieval manuscripts... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-375-70401-7 (0-375-70401-9) | February 2000 | $ 13.95
From the award-winning author of Ratking and Dead Lagoon comes a delicious new Aurelio Zen mystery in which wine and truffles figure as prominently as greed and vengence.
When the son of a Piedmontese wine-making family is jailed for killing his father, Aurelio Zen is ordered to secure his release. The reason... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70614-1 (0-375-70614-3) | June 1999 | $ 13.00
Florence,1855. "The English are dying too much," the city's police chief observes. And members of the foreign
community in this quaint Italian backwater, both English and American, are indeed dying at an alarming rate and in an extraordinary variety of ingenious and horrible ways.
With the local authorities out of their depth... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-679-76853-1 (0-679-76853-X) | September 1998 | $ 13.95
In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel he appears in, Zen himself has been assigned... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-679-77911-7 (0-679-77911-6) | June 1998 | $ 13.95
An Aurelio Zen Novel
Michael Dibdin's overburdened Italian police inspector has been transferred to Naples, where the rule of law is so lax that a police station may double as a brothel. But this time, having alienated superiors with his impolitic zealousness in every previous posting, Zen is determined not to make... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-76723-7 (0-679-76723-1) | February 1998 | $ 13.95
In this majestically unnerving novel, Michael Dibdin, the creator of the acclaimed Aurelio Zen mysteries, explores themes that might have been ripped out of today's headlines, as he charts America's dual epidemic of religious cultism and random violence.
The murders take place in distant cities and with no apparent motive. All that... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural; Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors) | 978-0-679-76855-5 (0-679-76855-6) | July 1997 | $ 14.95
The great Raymond Chandler once noted that "the detective or mystery story . . . has become so thoroughly explored that the real problem for a writer now is to avoid writing a mystery while appearing to do so." And that is precisely what the contributors in this masterful anthology have... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-76854-8 (0-679-76854-8) | April 1997 | $ 13.95
In this masterpiece of psychological suspense, Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. 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... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-75311-7 (0-679-75311-7) | January 1996 | $ 13.95
Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-76658-2 (0-679-76658-8) | January 1996 | $ 12.95
In 1888 Sherlock Holmes is languishing for a criminal case worthy of his powers, then one materializes, heralded by the spatter of gore and the shriek of headlines. For in vice-ridden Whitechapel, three female paupers of dubious morals have been murdered, their bodies hideously defiled. And in taunting letters their killer... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-75310-0 (0-679-75310-9) | January 1995 | $ 11.95
One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is reading by the fire. Mrs. Hargreave III is whiling... Read More