After his adventures in 'Cosi Fan Tutti', Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment - to release the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family."

Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily. Set against the backdrop of the 3000 year old city of Catania, Blood Rain reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven.

Neopolitan businessmen, politicians and eminent mafiosi are assassinated as someone takes literally the job of cleaning up the city's tarnished image. In this mystery, Aurelio Zen discovers that in 90s 'New Italy' things are still the same.

Aurelio Zen returns home to Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident. He soon learns that amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems.

Zen is lying low under a false name at a beach resort waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. But as an alarming number of people drop dead around him, how long until the Mafia finish the job they bungled months before?

When Austrian cavers exploring some abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come across human remains, everyone assumes the death was accidental, until the unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and there is a news blackout. Aurelio Zen is sent to find out the truth.

When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation.

Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder and Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth.

When Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell to his death in the chapel at St. Peter's, Rome, there were questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witnesses are mysteriously silenced - by violent death. To crack the secret of the Vatican, Zen must penetrate the most secret place of all: the Cabal.

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk.