Mystery

Vendetta

by Michael Dibdin · Aurelio Zen series

Zen returns to Venice, his childhood home, to investigate a judge's murder in a city sinking under tourism and old grudges. Dibdin leans into atmosphere—fog, canals, and the weight of a past that refuses to stay submerged. The mystery is local and political, solved less by deduction than by understanding the silences Venetians keep.

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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