{"product_id":"dead-lagoon-an-aurelio-zen-mystery-9780679753117","title":"Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery","description":"Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in \u003ci\u003eDead Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented \u003ci\u003econtessa\u003c\/i\u003e and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome \"black wells\" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Dibdin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.15h x 5.19w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679753117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/21\/1996 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael 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 \u003ci\u003eRatking\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and \u003ci\u003eCabal\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43373240942707,"sku":"9.78068E+12","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e3d36726-da5b-41ac-ab7b-02f9106ff1b9.jpg?v=1754766992","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/dead-lagoon-an-aurelio-zen-mystery-9780679753117","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}