Back to Bologna

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Back to Bologna
Author Michael Dibdin
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Aurelio Zen series, #10
Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher Faber and Faber
Publication date August 4 2005
Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback)
Pages 176pp (hardback) 240pp (paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0571227759
Preceded by Medusa
Followed by End Games

Back to Bologna is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the tenth entry in the popular Aurelio Zen series.

When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, the seasoned Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is summoned to oversee the investigation. Anxious for a break from his girlfriend, who attributes Zen's slow recovery from routine surgery to hypochondria, he is only too happy to take on what first appears to be an undemanding assignment. The case quickly spins out of control, becoming entangled with the fates of a student semiotics, a mysterious immigrant claiming to be royalty, and Bologna's most incompetent private detective. Meanwhile a prominent postmodern academic accuses Italy's leading celebrity chef of being a fraud. Back to Bologna delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy."--BOOK JACKET.