Ebook {Epub PDF} Back to Bologna by Michael Dibdin

 · Back to Bologna is dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today’s Italy. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In Gold Dagger winner Dibdin's fine 10th Aurelio Zen mystery (after 's Mesuda), the neurotic ace detective investigates the murder of Bologna millionaire entrepreneur Lorenzo Curti, who was found in his Audi impaled on a Parmesan cheese knife/5(5). Back to Bologna is dazzlingly plotted, features a cast of vivid and idiosyncratic characters and along the way delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of . Unfortunately, Dibdin fell short with BACK TO BOLOGNA. As is often the case with Dibdin, we have to deal more with Zen’s continuing personal and relationship problems than with the crime and its solution. Zen’s really a mess this time around. His Lucca-based girlfriend, Gemma Santini, from book #8 is fed up with him and wants to dump him. Dibdin’s new novel is not a mystery or a thriller.

Back to Bologna is dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy. In the latest installment in his critically acclaimed Italian mystery series, Michael Didbin sends Aurelio Zen to Italy's culinary capital, Bologna, where he discovers that some cases are not quite what they appear to be. Back to Bologna by Michael Dibdin starting at $ Back to Bologna has 7 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. Share - Back to Bologna by Michael Dibdin (Paperback, ) Back to Bologna by Michael Dibdin (Paperback, ) Be the first to write a review. About this product. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items. Brand new. AU $ Pre-owned.

In 'Back to Bologna' Dibdin pokes gentle fun at Umberto Eco and the 'intellectual' italian novel bringing it face to face with street level realities of italian life. It is also a great story. I think that Dibdin is much underated as a writer and that his worth will be proven by time. Unfortunately, Dibdin fell short with BACK TO BOLOGNA. As is often the case with Dibdin, we have to deal more with Zen’s continuing personal and relationship problems than with the crime and its solution. Zen’s really a mess this time around. His Lucca-based girlfriend, Gemma Santini, from book #8 is fed up with him and wants to dump him. Dibdin’s new novel is not a mystery or a thriller. When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Aurelio Zen is s. In the latest installment in his critically acclaimed Italian mystery series, Michael Didbin sends Aurelio Zen to Italy’s culinary capital, Bologna, where he discovers that some cases are not quite what they appear to be.