A Long Finish: From the award-winning author of Ratking and Dead Lagoon comes a delicious new Aurelio Zen mystery in which wine and truffles figure as prominently as greed and vengence. When the son of a Piedmontese wine-making family is jailed for killing his father Aurelio Zen is ordered to secure his release. The reason: A certain well-connected wine connoisseur wants to make sure that this years vintage goes to harvest. In the hill town of Alba Zen finds himself in the midst of a traditional culture in which family and soil are inextricablt linked bombarded with gossip and stalked by a mysterious telephone caller with tantalizing clues to his past. He also discovers that certain meals may really be to die for. A Long Finish is Michael Dibdin at his most elegant and surprising.