Mystery

Ratking

by Michael Dibdin · Aurelio Zen series

A Roman commissario is dispatched to investigate a kidnapping in Perugia, where local power brokers have no interest in the truth. Dibdin introduces Zen—sardonic, weary, and navigating Italian bureaucracy as skillfully as he does crime—in a novel that uses mystery to map the fractures of a country struggling with its own corruption.

Aurelio Zen in reading order

• 1. Ratking — Michael Dibdin
• 2. Vendetta — Michael Dibdin
• 3. Cabal — Michael Dibdin
• 4. Dead Lagoon — Michael Dibdin
• 6. A Long Finish — Michael Dibdin
• 7. Blood Rain (novel)
• 9. And Then You Die — Michael Dibdin
• 11. End Games — Michael Dibdin

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