A Long Finish
In Aurelio Zen, officer of the Italian Criminalpol, Michael Dibdin has created one of the most intriguing and addictive detectives in contemporary crime fiction. Now he returns in A Long Finish, driven by a steely instinct for self-preservation coupled with a love of good food and wine.
Zen is back in Rome, meeting with a world-famous film director at the instruction of his superiors. In the privacy of a remarkably well-stocked wine cellar, the director convinces Zen to arrange for the release of the scion of an important wine-growing family, who has been jailed for the murder of his own father.
It's a puzzle of envy, love, greed, and pride, accompanied by heaping plates of pasta covered with generous shavings of…