Blood Rain - 7 (23 page)

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COSI FAN TUTTI

An American sailor (who may be neither American nor a sailor) knifes someone in Naples’s harbor, and some local garbage collectors have begun moonlighting in homicide. Add a romantic intrigue involving love-sick gangsters and prostitutes disguised as Albanian refugees and you have one of Zen’s greatest challenges yet.

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DARK SPECTER

The murders take place in distant cities and with no apparent motives. But a dogged Seattle detective and a horribly bereaved survivor are about to come face-to-face with their perpetrator—a man named Los, a self-styled prophet who has the power to make his followers travel thousands of miles to kill for him.

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DEAD LAGOON

Michael Dibdin’s urbane and skeptical detective Zen returns to his native Venice to search for a vanished American millionaire. The result is a mystery rich in character and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.

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THE DYING OF THE LIGHT

The setting is Eventide Lodge, where guests have gathered for tea. Colonel Weatherby is reading by the fire. Mrs. Hiram Hargreave III is whiling away her time at patience. And Miss Rosemary Travis and her friend, Dorothy, are wondering which of their housemates will be the next to die.

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THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY

Michael Dibdin pits the sleuth of Baker Street against the Butcher of Whitechapel—the archfiend Jack the Ripper. And in doing so, he gives us a Holmes possessed of greater and more disturbing depths than the one we thought we knew.

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A LONG FINISH

When the son of a Piedmontese wine-making family is jailed for patricide, Zen is ordered to secure his release, because a well-connected wine connoisseur wants to ensure this year’s wine harvest. Zen finds himself in the midst of a traditional culture in which family and soil are inextricably linked and certain meals may really be to die for.

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RATKING

In this chilling masterpiece of police procedure and psychological suspense, the stoic Italian police commissioner Aurelio Zen goes to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist.

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A RICH FULL DEATH

Florence, 1855. “The English are dying too much,” the police chief observes. The distinguished resident Robert Browning launches his own private investigation, aided by an expatriate Robert Booth, but their amateur sleuthing is hampered by the fact that each of their suspects becomes the next victim.

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VENDETTA

An eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics, has been killed on his heavily fortified estate. The cameras have captured his grisly death, but not the face of his killer. And that same killer—elusive, implacable, and deranged—may now be stalking Zen.

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Copyright © 1999 by Michael Dibdin

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:
Dibdin, Michael.
Blood rain: an Aurelio Zen mystery/Michael Dibdin.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-55474-1
I. Title.
PR6054.126 B58 2000 823′.914—dc21 99–046938

Author photograph by Isolde Ohlbaum

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