The novelist Michael Dibdin , who has died aged 60 after a short illness, created the
Venice-born detective Aurelio Zen, whose tasks took him to vigorously differentiated parts of Italy that rarely afforded him any peace of mind. Zen's peripatetic life and tangled emotional encounters owed much to Dibdin's own spirit. As with detection, the writer may have always had a goal in view, writing, but things happened along the way.
I'd never heard of this author until I read his obituary. Today Mr. Nag spotted a trilogy of Zen mysteries for $2.00 and bought it to read on our upcoming trip to Sicily.
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