About the Author

Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lives in Seattle.After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen. In 1989 The Tryst was published to great acclaim and was followed by Vendetta in 1990, the second story in the Zen series. Dirty Tricks was published in 1991. Inspector Zen made his third appearance in Cabal, which was published in 1992. The Dying of the Light, an Agatha Christie pastiche, was published in 1993. His fourth Zen novel, Dead Lagoon, was published the follow

Reviews

"Spellbinding . . . superb." --"The Washington Post"
"As bracing as grappa. . . . Michael Dibdin is a fine novelist and an excellent mystery writer."
--"USA Today"
"Dibdin, whose prose is as startlingly clever as his plot, stretches the existential suspense through to the final page.... One marvels at Blood Rain's melancholy and beguiling vision."
--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Exquisitely written. . . . Dibdin's Zen books are essential reading for lovers of mysteries, and of Italy."
--"Chicago Sun-Times"

" Spellbinding . . . superb." -- "The Washington Post"
" As bracing as grappa. . . . Michael Dibdin is a fine novelist and an excellent mystery writer."
-- "USA Today"
" Dibdin, whose prose is as startlingly clever as his plot, stretches the existential suspense through to the final page.... One marvels at Blood Rain' s melancholy and beguiling vision."
-- "The Wall Street Journal"
" Exquisitely written. . . . Dibdin's Zen books are essential reading for lovers of mysteries, and of Italy."
-- "Chicago Sun-Times"

"Spellbinding . . . superb." --"The Washington Post"
"As bracing as grappa. . . . Michael Dibdin is a fine novelist and an excellent mystery writer."
--"USA Today"
"Dibdin, whose prose is as startlingly clever as his plot, stretches the existential suspense through to the final page.... One marvels at Blood Rain's melancholy and beguiling vision."
--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Exquisitely written. . . . Dibdin's Zen books are essential reading for lovers of mysteries, and of Italy."
--"Chicago Sun-Times"
" Spellbinding . . . superb." -- "The Washington Post"
" As bracing as grappa. . . . Michael Dibdin is a fine novelist and an excellent mystery writer."
-- "USA Today"
" Dibdin, whose prose is as startlingly clever as his plot, stretches the existential suspense through to the final page.... One marvels at Blood Rain' s melancholy and beguiling vision."
-- "The Wall Street Journal"
" Exquisitely written. . . . Dibdin's Zen books are essential reading for lovers of mysteries, and of Italy."
-- "Chicago Sun-Times"