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Michael Dibdin

August 2016

  • Grey wagtails

    Brief letters
    Shifty shades of grey (and yellow) wagtails

    Brief letters: Women reclaiming the streets | Benefits of livestreaming arts performances | Bird identification | Donald Trump’s ‘sacrifice’

October 2012

  • Krister Henriksson as Wallander

    Crime's grand tour: European detective fiction

    Crime fiction is a magnifying glass that reveals the fingerprints of history. From Holmes and Poirot to Montalbano and the rise of Scandi-noir, Mark Lawson investigates the long tradition of European super-sleuths and their role in turbulent times

January 2011

  • Michael Dibdin: 'Zen is someone I don't know very much about' – video

  • itcrime

    Italian authors' invasion is set to conquer the crime fiction lists

January 2009

  • 1000 novels everyone must read
    The best of Michael Dibdin

    Mark Lawson: Educated in Ireland and resident in Oxford and then Seattle, he set most of his novels in Italy

June 2008

  • Friends for faraway places

    Take Alexandre Dumas to Paris, read Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, pack Michael Dibdin for Sicily - wherever you are going on holiday this summer, writers recommend the perfect literary travelling companions

July 2007

  • Zen and the art of cooking tomatoes

    End Games by Michael Dibdin, who died earlier this year, marks a return to form for his thoughtful Venetian policeman, says Peter Guttridge.

June 2007

  • Mark Lawson

    Last things

    Mark Lawson

    A strangely prophetic sense of mortality and fragility pervades Michael Dibdin's final work End Games. Mark Lawson bids farewell to the food-loving, troubled but essentially decent Italian cop, Aurelio Zen, and considers the Anglo-Italian-American author's unique contribution to British detective fiction.

April 2007

  • Books blog
    Michael Dibdin: RIP

  • How Aurelio Zen got on the case in Porthmadog

  • Michael Dibdin

  • Books blog
    Michael Dibdin: RIP

  • Crime writer Michael Dibdin dies

  • Michael Dibdin

February 2006

  • An offer I couldn't refuse

    Michael Dibdin

    Crime writer Michael Dibdin was well aware that the remote wilds of Sardinia were a haven for kidnappers and brigands. But what were the intentions of the roughneck stranger who insisted on befriending him?

August 2004

  • Intrigue in the Alto Adige

    After reading Medusa, Nicholas Lezard has only one conclusion: Michael Dibdin's policiers are more addictive than crack cocaine.

August 2003

  • The body on the mountain

    Colin Greenland enjoys another case for Aurelio Zen in Michael Dibdin's Medusa

January 2003

  • Gathering the elements

    Michael Dibdin

    Thrift and observation are the keys to constructing a novel, says Michael Dibdin

January 2002

  • The gang's all here... again

  • Just because you're paranoid...

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