Dead Lagoon (Aurelio Zen #4)

Michael Dibdin

Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
3.86 · 14 ratings · 297 pages · Published: 12 Apr 1994
Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin
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 be tomorrow's defendants.

Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa 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.
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