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In this masterpiece of psychological suspense, Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors -- if he's still alive. Was Miletti truly the victim of professionals? Or might his kidnapper be someone closer to home: his preening son Daniele, with his million-lire wardrobe and his profitable drug business? His daughter, Cinzia, whose vapid beauty conceals a devastating secret? The perverse Silvio, or the eldest son Pietro, the unscrupulous fixer who manipulates the plots of others for his own ends? As Zen tries to unravel this rat's nest of family intrigue and official complicity, Michael Dibdin gives us one of his most accomplished thrillers, a chilling masterpiece of police procedure and psychological suspense.

On orders emanating from high above the usual police bureaucracy, Venetian police inspector Aurelio Zen is sent to Sardinia to arrest someone--anyone--for the murder of an eccentric billionaire whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in the Italian government.

Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder and Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth.

CRIME & MYSTERY. When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian alps come across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental - until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione D'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related? The whole affair has the whiff of political intrigue. That's enough to interest Aurelio Zen's boss at the Interior Ministry, who wants to know who is hiding what from who and why. The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky history of post-war Italy and obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime that everyone thought was as dead and buried as the victim.

The site where the body had been found was within the territory of the provincia di Catania, and hence under the jurisdiction of the authorities of that city. So far, so good. From a bureaucratic point of view, however, the crucial factor was where and when the crime - if indeed it was a crime - had occurred. As all those concerned were soon to learn, none of these points was susceptible of a quick or easy answer. Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting to Sicily. The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous murder case. Set against the backdrop of Catania, in the shadow of the smouldering volcano of Etna, Blood Rain is a riveting tale of violence and murder, which reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven. If you enjoyed the Inspector Zen Mystery series you may also like The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, another crime novel by Michael Dibdin.

Případ komisaře Zena. Aurelio Zen, komisař kriminálního oddělení italského ministerstva vnitra, je pověřen vyšetřováním únosu Ruggiera Milettiho, hlavy významné podnikatelské rodiny v Perugii. Pátrání po pachatelích únosu a posléze i vraždy se postupně proměňuje v neúprosný a nervy drásající zápas, v němž jedinou Zenovou šancí na úspěch je rozkrýt temný svět pečlivě střežených osobních tajemství, zájmů a intrik hned několika podezřelých.

Politieman Aurelio Zen, die tijdelijk is overgeplaatst naar een plaatsje in het Zuid-Italiaanse Calabrië, onderzoekt de mysterieuze moord op een Italiaanse Amerikaan en krijgt te maken met een Amerikaanse miljonair die op zoek is naar een legendarische schat.

Im heißen Kalabrien kämpft Aurelio Zen erbittert gegen das organisierte Verbrechen Aurelio Zen, Sonderermittler der italienischen Polizei, wird nach Cosenza, Kalabrien, gerufen. Dort ist der Amerikaner Robert Newman verschwunden, und alles sieht nach einer klassischen Entführung aus. Doch wenig später findet man Newmans übel zugerichtete Leiche, und einem kleinen Jungen, der Newman zuletzt gesehen hat, wird die Zunge herausgeschnitten. Zen kommt mit seinen Ermittlungen nicht voran, überall stößt er auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Doch anstatt einen Täter zu finden, provoziert Zen mit seinen Untersuchungen nur weitere Morde …

Sonderermittler Aurelio Zen wird nach Bologna beordert, um den Mord an dem skrupellosen Industriellen und Eigentümer des ortsansässigen Fußballclubs, Lorenzo Curti, aufzuklären. Kurz nach Zens Ankunft wird auf den Semiotikprofessor Edgardo Ugo geschossen, und zwar mit derselben Waffe, mit der Curti getötet wurde. Was die beiden Fälle verbindet, bleibt zunächst völlig schleierhaft. Aber je länger Zen ermittelt, desto tiefer gerät er in ein Netz aus Korruption, gekränkten Eitelkeiten und Fanatismus.