Майкл Дибдин - автор 11 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: День Благодарения, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Медуза. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
Погибла жена немолодого журналиста-англичанина, живущего в Америке, и он отправляется в Неваду — встретиться с ее первым мужем… Зачем? Почему? Человек, одержимый горем, попросту не знает этого — потому что существует отныне в странном мире на грани вероятного и невероятного. Человек, одержимый горем, ХОЧЕТ ГОВОРИТЬ… Так начинается эта тончайшая, изысканнейшая история, в которой основное место прин...
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading ...
Первый труп найден в пещере в Итальянских Альпах… Второй обнаруживается во взорванной машине… Затем смертей становится больше… За расследование берется опытнейший полицейский сыщик Аурелио Дзен. Кто-то методично убирает всех причастных к «Операции Медуза»… Что стоит за этой «операцией» – заговор военных, ведущий на самый верх итальянского общества, или что-то другое? Ценой немалого риска Дзен доис...
When it comes to revenge, love is a dangerous complication. With a fierce rivalry raging between two warring families, falling in love is the deadliest thing Sophie could do. An epic debut set outside modern-day Chicago. When five brothers move into the abandoned mansion in her neighbourhood, Sophie Gracewell's life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to bad boy Nicoli, Sophie finds hersel...
Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. From the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over a kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. Gold Dagger Award winner.
Young Bostonian Robert Booth manoeuvres an entree into the Florentine residence of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When Mr Browning is called away, Booth follows him - and is brought to the village of his childhood sweetheart, who is now hanging by the neck from a tree in the garden.
Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the...
'A nasty, original, murderously funny entertainment.' Independent Dennis and Karen lead a nice life in North Oxford until the day one of their dinner guests seduces Karen in the kitchen, setting in motion a chain of events which will destroy the thin veneer of their respectability and lead to ruthless murder. Dirty Tricks is a gripping and brilliant thriller set in contemporary Oxf...
After his adventures in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment - to release the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family.
The ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed, in the funeral of a hero, whose valour, and fortune, they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of Cosentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils, and trophies, of Rome, was constructed in the vacant be...
Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk. A major TV drama series on BBC One starred Rufus Sewell as Zen.