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Ratking, Vendetta, Cabal, Dead Lagoon, Cosi Fan Tutti--in each of these masterfully suspenseful and atmospheric novels we have met Michael Dibdin's Italian Criminalpol officer Aurelio Zen. Intelligent and urbane (if a little weary), Zen galvanizes us not only with his ability to solve the most intractable crimes but also with his methodology. He is both devious and moral, a slave to the status quo and original in his thinking, amused by his own tor-por and surprised by his drive. Now, in The Long Finish, he is driven by something new: a steelyinstinct for self-preservation coupled with a love of good food and wine. After a riotous and heroic stint in Naples, Zen is back in Rome, meeting with a world-famous film director at the instruction of his superiors. In the privacy of a remarkably well stocked wine cellar, the director--whose influence clearly reaches beyond the entertainment industry--convinces Zen to arrange for the release of the scion of an important wine-growing family, who has been jailed for the murder of his own father. At stake for the director, a connoisseur of Piedmontese wines, is this year's vintage: only the jailed man can ensure the timely harvesting of his family's precious grapes. At stake for Zen: avoiding a posting to the dreaded Sicily.In Alba--an outwardly serene village set among rolling hills that are planted with vines for as far as the eye can see--Zen discovers that only spilled blood can separate a family from its land. And though murder here is rare, it is complex. But at least it's accompanied by heaping plates of pasta, generous shavings of white truffles, and bottomless glasses of wine. If only Zen can keep his policing skills as sharp as his palate is pampered. . . .From the Hardcover edition.
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Fiction, Police, Aurelio Zen (Fictitious character), Wine and wine making, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Italy, fiction, Zen, aurelio (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Literature, Translations into EnglishPlaces
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A Long Finish : An Aurelio Zen Mystery
2000, Random House of Canada, Limited, Random House of Canada
0385259484 9780385259484
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A long finish: [an Aurelio Zen mystery]
1998, Faber and Faber Limited
in English
0571193412 9780571193417
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A long finish: an Aurelio Zen mystery
1998, Pantheon Books
in English
- 1st American ed.
0375404295 9780375404290
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