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Carregando... Ratking (1988)de Michael Dibdin
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Simply excellent. Richly evocative prose, strong characterization. I don't know if the Italy paints is the real one, but he really brings it to life. ( ) It must be several years ago when I caught a couple of episodes of the TV series only to find the broadcast was finished. Since then I've been looking for Dibdin's books. I found a couple from later in the series and enjoyed them enough that I kept up the search and have since added a few more to my collection. This one is the first in the series that I wanted to read it before starting any others. I can't say anything against Dibdin or Aurelio Zen. The story was complex without being convoluted, the main character, an unfairly demoted police commissioner, was intricate and appealing, and Dibdin provided a good picture of the differences in regional Italian culture and police methods. More than a murder mystery, this one has an excellent story, I enjoyed every page. I have read a few of Dibdin's Aurelio Zen mysteries--I picked this one up because with my son off to Ecuador for a year, I was intrigued by the Italian mystery concerning a Peruvian industrialist. Of course, when I started it, I realized perhaps I should start wearing my new reading glasses--the industrialist is, of course, Perugian. Not Peruvian. But I'm reading it anyway! I watched the very short-lived Zen TV series (just 3 episodes were made) and I liked both the style and any chance to watch Rufus Sewel so I thought I would give one of the books it is based on a chance. The book and TV series do have one thing in common, the mystery/police procedural plots are both hard to follow and not particularly well-constructed. Otherwise, the Zen of the novels is pretty different from the show, he comes from Venice and that is about it. It was not a terribly interesting read and I lost both track and interest in the suspects and was just overall glad when it was done. On another note, this is the first physical book I have taken out of the library since the pandemic. I have no idea why anybody would compare Dibdin with Chandler: he is wordy where Chandler is minimalist, verging on sentimental where Chandler is cynical. Could two characters be more different than Zen and Marlowe? Zen who lives with his mother and isn't going to give that up for all the sex in China and - Marlowe?! Good book. Chandler it ain't. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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