{"product_id":"9780679753117","title":"Dead Lagoon (Aurelio Zen Series #4)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017674604784,"sku":"9780679753117","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679753117_p0.jpg?v=1763608764","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679753117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}