Michael Dibdin

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1978
  • Latest Book:
    October 2007
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Full Series List in Order

An Aurelio Zen Mystery

1 - Ratking (1988)
2 - Vendetta (1990)
3 - Cabal (1992)
4 - Dead Lagoon (Jan-1995)
5 - Cosi Fan Tutti (1996)
6 - A Long Finish (Sep-1998)
7 - Blood Rain (Apr-2000)
8 - And Then You Die (Jun-2002)
9 - Medusa (Feb-2004)
10 - Back to Bologna (Sep-2006)
11 - End Games (Oct-2007)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

    LONDON 1888: MANIAC STALKS WHITECHAPEL! Three female paupers of dubious morals are gruesomely murdered. Their corpses are horribly mutilated. Instantly, London is thrust into a state of terror. A monstrous ghoul is prowling the night, untouchable ...

  • Ratking

    • / Police Procedural
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    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 1

    Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, ...

  • The Tryst

    “One of my patients thinks somebody’s trying to kill him,” Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatrist with a fading marriage, Aileen is haunted by the glue-sniffing lad who comes to her in a panic, begging to be admitted ...

  • Vendetta

    • / Law Enforcement
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    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 2

    In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel h...

  • Cabal

    • / Law Enforcement
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    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 3

    In Cabal, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities. An apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal with...

  • Dirty Tricks

    A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers...

  • The Dying of the Light

    One of England's most acclaimed younger mystery writers, the creator of Detective Aurelio Zen, gives us a brilliant and haunting variation on the classic drawing-room murder novel. The setting is Eventide Lodge, where the guests have gathered for tea...

  • Dead Lagoon

    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 4

    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...

  • Cosi Fan Tutti

    • / Police Procedural
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    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 5

    An Aurelio Zen NovelMichael Dibdin's overburdened Italian police inspector has been transferred to Naples, where the rule of law is so lax that a police station may double as a brothel. But this time, having alienated superiors with his impolitic zea...



  • Dark Specter

    In this majestically unnerving novel, Michael Dibdin, the creator of the acclaimed Aurelio Zen mysteries, explores themes that might have been ripped out of today's headlines, as he charts America's dual epidemic of religious cultism and random viole...

  • The Vintage Book of Classic Crime

    The great Raymond Chandler once noted that "the detective or mystery story . . . has become so thoroughly explored that the real problem for a writer now is to avoid writing a mystery while appearing to do so." And that is precisely what the contribu...

  • A Long Finish

    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 6

    From the award-winning author of Ratking and Dead Lagoon comes a delicious new Aurelio Zen mystery in which wine and truffles figure as prominently as greed and vengence.When the son of a Piedmontese wine-making family is jailed for killing his fathe...

  • A Rich Full Death

    Florence,1855. "The English are dying too much," the city's police chief observes. And members of the foreign community in this quaint Italian backwater, both English and American, are indeed dying at an alarming rate and in an extraordinary variety ...

  • Blood Rain

    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 7

    Aurelio Zen -- cynical and tough, yet worn down from years of law enforcement -- has just been given the worst assignment he could imagine. He has been sent to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been...

  • Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all that seems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinged by his wife’s unexpected death, Anthony, a middle-aged Seattle journalist, becomes obsessed with her past. He drives throug...

  • And Then You Die

    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 8

    Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back -- but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in the hospital healing from wounds sustained in a bomb attack on his car in Sicily, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan ...

  • Medusa

    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 9

    After a decomposed body is discovered in an abandoned military tunnel, Inspector Aurelio Zen travels north to the Italian Alps to investigate. At first glance, the death appears to have been an accident. But when Zen takes a closer look, a mysterious...

  • Back to Bologna

    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 10

    Some cases are not quite what they appear to be. When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Aurelio Zen is summoned to oversee the investigation. Anxiou...

  • End Games

    An Aurelio Zen Mystery - 11

    The final installment in this award-winning series brings Italian police detective Aurelio Zen to remote Calabria, where the Venice-born-and-bred detective feels uncomfortably like a foreigner. It's a routine assignment, and Aurelio Zen is biding...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Dibdin has published 19 books.

Michael Dibdin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, End Games, was published in October 2007.

The first book by Michael Dibdin, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, was published in May 1978.

Yes. Michael Dibdin has 1 series.
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