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Medusa 
1st editionAuthor(s) Michael Dibdin Country United Kingdom Language English Series Aurelio Zen series, #9 Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel Publisher Faber and Faber Publication date August 7 2003 Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback) Pages 292pp (hardback) 288pp (paperback) ISBN 0571216587 OCLC Number 52327448 Preceded by And Then You Die Followed by Back to Bologna Medusa is a novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the ninth entry in the popular Aurelio Zen series.
Plot
When a group of Austrian cavers exploring in the Italian Alps comes across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental. But then the body is removed from the morgue and the Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. Smelling a rat, and seeing an opportunity to embarrass their political rivals in the run-up to a cabinet change, the Ministry of the Interior puts Aurelio Zen onto the case.
The search for the truth leads him into the turbulent political history of Italy during the seventies and also into obscure corners of modern-day affluent society, exposing the sordid details of a crime that everyone else had forgotten.
The story is told from the view points of several of those involved and the action moves between Rome, the extreme northern province of Alto Adige, an Italian enclave and tax haven in Switzerland, and several provincial Italian cities.
The focus is on movement, rather than the methodical application of the police process; Zen takes short cuts with the latter and arrives at the solution in a rush.
Novels by Michael Dibdin Aurelio Zen series Ratking (1988) • Vendetta (1990) • Cabal (1992) • Dead Lagoon (1994) • Cosi Fan Tutti (1996) • A Long Finish (1998) • Blood Rain (1999) • And Then You Die (2002) • Medusa (2003) • Back to Bologna (2005) • End Games (2007) • Television series (2011)Other novels The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) • A Rich Full Death (1986) • The Tryst (1989) • Dirty Tricks (1991) • The Dying of the Light (1993) • Dark Spectre (1995) • Thanksgiving (2000)Categories:- 2003 novels
- Novels by Michael Dibdin
- British crime novels
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