And Then You Die

'Unputdownable. ' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. 'A complete inversion of the standard detective genre. ' GUARDIAN. AN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERY. Inspector Zen is back, but nobody''s supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a car-bomb attack, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions: to sit back and enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday. But when an alarming number of people start dropping dead around him, it seems just a matter of time before the Mafia manages to find their target. 'A top quality thriller. ' 5 reader review. 'A very entertaining read, sometimes funny sometimes thought provoking and always with a slightly cynical dig at the Italian "establishment". ' 5 reader review. 'My favourite book, bar none. ' 5 reader review. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL DIBDIN AND THE INSPECTOR ZEN SERIES:. 'He wrote with real fire. ' IAN RANKIN. 'A maestro of crime writing. ' SUNDAY TIMES. 'One of the genre's finest stylists. And Zen himself is a masterly creation: he is anti-heroic and pragmatic but obstinate, cunning and positively burdened with integrity. ' GUARDIAN. 'Dibdin tells a rollicking good tale that you want both to read fast, because of its gripping storyline, and to linger over, to savour the evocative descriptions of place and mood. ' INDEPENDENT. 'One of British crime fiction's most distinguished and distinctive voices. ' ANDREW TAYLOR. 'Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader. ' Ruth Rendell. 'Zen is one of the greatest creations of contemporary crime fiction. ' OBSERVER. 'I love the way these books capture the atmosphere and contradictions of Italy. ' 5 reader review. 'Aurelio Zen novels are a great treat. ' 5 reader review. 'There is no better writer than Dibdin. His books are a joy to read. ' 5 reader review. 'Love these books. I am sure you will get hooked too. ' 5 reader review.