In Dibdin's eighth diverting mystery to feature Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol unit, the hard-to-kill detective is still recuperating from his last adventure, Blood Rain (2000), which left ...

This morning, sitting in a too-cold hotel room, I was hit with one of those uncomfortable assaults of reality that seem to lurk in the shadows, waiting to pounce when you least suspect it. I had just ...

Michael Dibdin — a woefully underrated crime writer, at least in this country — was born in England, raised there and in Northern Ireland, lived in many other places and in the mid-1990s met mystery ...

One of the fascinating things about the hard-boiled tradition is its geographic flexibility. Writers all over the world have taken the form, altered it to suit their times and temperaments and made it ...

Michael Dibdin, a British-born writer of crime fiction whose series of books about an enigmatic Venetian detective are noted for their skillful plotting and their reflections on Italian politics and ...

Michael Dibdin, a Seattle-based author of critically acclaimed crime fiction, has died. Mr. Dibdin, 60, died March 30. He was best known for his series featuring the Italian detective, inspector ...

MICHAEL Dibdin, the bestselling crime writer who grew up in Lisburn, has died aged 60. He created the maverick Venetian detective Aurelio Zen, one of the quirkiest sleuths in crime fiction. Dibdin ...

In Dibdin's eighth diverting mystery to feature Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol unit, the hard-to-kill detective is still recuperating from his last adventure, Blood Rain (2000), which left ...

With only a couple of years off in the last 20, Michael Dibdin's novels have become a more or less reliable annual fixture, so for fans like myself there is a selfish component of sadness at the news ...

Michael Dibdin, the bestselling crime writer, who has died aged 60, created the maverick Venetian detective Aurelio Zen, one of the quirkiest sleuths in crime fiction. Dibdin combined a flair for ...