Medusa

Medusa

by Michael Dibdin (Author)

Synopsis

When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels 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. And is the recent car bombing in Campione d'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related? 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 back 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 0571219853
ISBN 13: 9780571219858
Book Overview: Medusa is the ninth book in the Inspector Zen series by the 'maestro of crime writing', Michael Dibdin: a tale of political intrigue set in the Italian Alps. Now a major TV series on BBC One from the producers of DCI Banks and Wallander featuring Rufus Sewell.

Media Reviews
'Crime writers don't get much better than Michael Dibdin.' Independent; 'Michael Dibdin is a Milton, it would seem, to Conan Doyle's Shakespeare.' Daily Telegraph; 'Zen is back at the height of his powers.' Scotsman
Author Bio
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Inspector Zen Mystery series. The first novel in the series, Ratking, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. Other titles in the series include Medusa, Back to Bologna and End Games. He died in 2007.