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One of the rising era of crime writers, none is really as fashionable and smart as Michael Dibdin, who, in Useless Lagoon, provides us a pleasantly weird new book presenting the urbane and suspicious Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable job it's to fight crime in a nation where today's superiors might be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He's trying to find the tormentors of the half-demented contessa and a faded American billionaire whose household is spending Zen underneath the desk to find out his whereabouts-dead or living. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly tangible: in the twisted policeman discovered drowned in another of the townis noisome "black wells" to your brand new skeleton that areas about the Area of the Dead. The end result is just a secret full of reduction and personality, and extremely educated concerning the politics, history, and ways of its Venetian environment.