{"product_id":"books-dead-lagoon-by-michael-dibdin","title":"Dead Lagoon","description":"Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in \u003ci\u003eDead Lagoon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 ghostly tormentors of a half-demented \u003ci\u003econtessa\u003c\/i\u003e and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome black wells to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673841426705,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780679433491.jpg?v=1781528908","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-dead-lagoon-by-michael-dibdin","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}