Ratking - Michael Dibdin

I had been looking for a new detective series to get my teeth into and after reading a couple of reviews on the Aurelio Zen character found within a series of books by Michael Dibdin I hoped that my search may have come to end and so I got hold of a copy of Ratking from my good friends at Amazon. Unfortunately I have to report that my search is not over after finding this to be a slow moving and not very inspiring read. There are a couple of positives that might make it appealing to some readers but I definitely found it to be far from a compelling read even if it did pick up a bit towards the end. The Plot The hero of the piece Police ...

Introduction I've read a couple of books by Michael Dibdin over the last few months and both times have been really disappointed. Both started off well; but ended up drifting to and end in a very unsatisfactory way. Having been assured by quite a few people that Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series was much better than his non-series novels, I decided to persevere and luckily hit the jackpot this time. The first in the Aurelio Zen series, this book was written in 1988. For those of you that were wondering, a ratking is not the king of a pack of rats, but refers to the situation that evolves when rats breeding in close proximity to each other begin to entwine and ...