| A Long Finish | |
| Author: | Michael Dibdin |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Aurelio Zen series, #6 |
| Genre: | Crime, Mystery novel |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Release Date: | December 1, 1998 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback, Paperback) |
| Pages: | 256pp (hardback) 256pp (paperback) |
| Isbn: | 0-571-19341-2 |
| Oclc: | 40234264 |
| Preceded By: | Cosi Fan Tutti |
| Followed By: | Blood Rain |
A Long Finish is a 1998 novel by Michael Dibdin, and is the sixth entry in the Aurelio Zen series.[1] [2]
After his adventures under sun-drenched Neapolitan skies in Cosi Fan Tutti, Italian police detective Aurelio Zen finds himself reluctantly back in Rome, sneezing in the damp wine cellar of a retired but still powerful and connected mover and shaker. Strings are pulled and he is given another unorthodox assignment: find evidence that clears the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family, who is accused of brutal murder, in time to harvest what is anticipated to be a great vintage.
Zen is confronted with the closed ranks and closed mouths of a small, remote rural town, where everyone knows the secrets of everyone else. Grappling with tangled relationships, bitter resentments and grudges reaching back to the immediate post-war years, his investigations are further distracted by meeting the young woman who thinks she is his daughter.