num_pages: 272
description: From the award-winning author of Ratking and Dead Lagoon comes a delicious new Aurelio Zen mystery in which wine and truffles figure as prominently as greed and vengence.When the son of a Piedmontese wine-making family is jailed for killing his father, Aurelio Zen is ordered to secure his release. The A certain well-connected wine connoisseur wants to make sure that this year's vintage goes to harvest.In the hill town of Alba, Zen finds himself in the midst of a traditional culture in which family and soil are inextricablt linked, bombarded with gossip, and stalked by a mysterious telephone caller with tantalizing clues to his past. He also discovers that certain meals may really be to die for. A Long Finish is Michael Dibdin at his most elegant and surprising.
language: English
title: A Long Finish
titlecomplete: A Long Finish (Aurelio Zen, #6)
genres: Fiction, Action, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, Zen, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Italian Literature, Crime
ratings_count: 1226
series: Aurelio Zen
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard