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  • You can tell that is has not been written by an American. The story is complex, but also the writing is complex, at time seeming slow, but gripping and interesting. A plus....it is nice to recognize buildings, streets, places....

    

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• ― Mtshafer said on Dec 23, 2008 | Add your feedback

Dibdin gives readers a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen. In this new mystery, Zen returns to his native Venice, searching for a missing American millionaire and encountering an assortment of corpses--including a suspiciously new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead.