Medusa (Dibdin Michael)(Paperback) - diskuze

‘Escapism of a high order.’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY‘A slyly intelligent page turner.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY When a group of Austrian cavers in the Italian Alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental – until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. The whole affair has the whiff of political intrigue. That's enough to interest Aurelio Zen's boss at the Interior Ministry, who wants to know who is hiding what from who and why. The search for the truth leads Zen into the murky history of post-war Italy and obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime that everyone thought was as dead and buried as the victim.‘As the plot quickens, we are soon deep in Dibdin’s favourite territory: the murky political conflicts of Italy’s past and the oily chicanery of its present.’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Dibdin's misanthropic wit finds plenty to play with.’ GUARDIAN‘A terrific detective story.’ 5* reader review‘Beautifully written . . . You get a real sense of the turbulence in the Italian state during that era.’ 5* reader review‘MEDUSA is the best I've read so far, with a complex but pleasing plot.’ 5* reader reviewPRAISE FOR MICHAEL DIBDIN AND THE INSPECTOR ZEN SERIES:‘He wrote with real fire.’ IAN RANKIN‘A maestro of crime writing.’ SUNDAY TIMES‘One of the genre’s finest stylists . . .
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