Book description
After his last case, among the gentle hills and lush vineyards of
Piedmont, Inspector 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 on a disused siding marks the beginning of Zen's most
difficult and dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the three
thousand-year-old city of Catania, in the shadow of the smouldering
volcano of Etna, Blood Rain reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate
and driven. 'The best detective novelist around.' Sunday Times
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in
Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He is the
author of the internationally bestselling Aurelio Zen series, which
includes And Then You Die, Medusa and Back to Bologna. He died in 2007.
