by Michael Dibdin (Author)
'As you may have gathered, there was a suicide in St Peter's this afternoon. Someone threw himself off the gallery inside the dome. Such incidents are quite common, and do not normally require the attention of this department. In the present instance, however, the victim was not some jilted maidservant or ruined shopkeeper, but Prince Ludovico Ruspanti.' When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred and fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Did he fall or was he pushed? Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously silenced - by violent death. To crack the secrets of the Vatican, Zen must penetrate the most secret place of all: the Cabal. If you enjoyed the Inspector Zen Mystery series you may also like The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, another crime novel by Michael Dibdin.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 30 Dec 2010
ISBN 10: 057127062X
ISBN 13: 9780571270620
Book Overview: Cabal is the third book in the Inspector Zen series by Michael Dibdin set amid the darkest secrets of the Vatican in Rome. Now a major TV series on BBC One from the producers of DCI Banks and Wallander featuring Rufus Sewell.