Loved this book for its comic overturns; building on Cosi Fan Tutti, here Dibdin does not hold back in wit and imagination. This book works well on so many levels and could be re-read several times over before all the author's subtle skills and play on words could be appreciated. More farce at times than crime fiction Zen holds his own as he reaches a mid-life crisis with no impetus to work or strive professionally or romantically. Somehow he blunders about, even falling under suspicion himself, in what is a cleverly written novel that ends all too soon.