In Dibdin's eighth diverting mystery to feature Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol unit, the hard-to-kill detective is still recuperating from his last adventure, Blood Rain (2000), which left ...

The wry 11th and final Insp. Aurelio Zen mystery (after 2006's Back to Bologna) will leave the series' many fans in renewed mourning for Gold Dagger–winner Dibdin (1947-2007). When the corpse of ...

Masterpiece Mystery's new three-film arc features Rufus Sewell as the unflappable Aurelio Zen, seemingly the only honest cop on the Roman police force. The Zen mysteries, launching Sunday on PBS with ...

What does an honest cop do when his bosses are on the side of the lawbreakers? Outwitting prosecutors, politicians, mobsters, and run-of-the-mill kidnappers and killers, Detective Aurelio Zen brings ...

BBC Worldwide and PBS' Masterpiece Theatre will co-produce a remake of "Upstairs Downstairs," as well as new series based on Sherlock Holmes and Aurelio Zen novels. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large ...

Zen: "Masterpiece Mystery" films; "Vendetta," 9 p.m. Sun.; "Cabal," 9 p.m. July 24; and "Ratking," 9 p.m. July 31 on PBS. La vita is molto dolce in "Masterpiece Mystery's" new three-film arc featuring ...

Michael Dibdin, a British-born writer of crime fiction whose series of books about an enigmatic Venetian detective are noted for their skillful plotting and their reflections on Italian politics and ...

Michael Dibdin's best selling crime novels featuring the espresso drinking detective, Aurelio Zen, have been made into a three-part drama. Actor Rufus Sewell, who plays Zen, talks about the ...

With the death of British author Michael Dibdin this past April at age 60, the peripatetic career of Italian police investigator Aurelio Zen comes to an end after 11 books. Zen, always an outsider, ...

Rufus Sewell has signed up to star as Aurelio Zen in a new BBC drama. The Eleventh Hour actor will play the fictional detective across three feature-length dramas which will transmit on BBC One. Set ...

Tomatoes offend Aurelio Zen. They’re bland. They don’t belong in authentic Italian cuisine. To Zen’s dismay, this is a message that hasn’t reached the chefs of Calabria in the south of Italy, where ...

Years ago my Dad gave me a Michael Dibdin book and told me to read it. What I most enjoyed about it was the loving detail and description of life in Italy - it's almost as if Italy is a huge character ...