End Games (Aurelio Zen Series #11) Book

This is the last of Dibdin's detective novels that were as much a tour of Italy as stories of crime, old vs. new Italy (crime being a hallmark of both) and, um, what's the Italian word for angst? This one is set in Calabria, where Dibdin's pensive, sometimes even depressed, Venetian detective Aurelio Zen tries to get to the bottom of the murder of an American who was ostensibly scouting locations for a film. As usual, a long history of grudges and resentment plays into the seemingly senseless death. There are two primary villains in "End Games," the better one not the Italian killer but the Vietnamese-American "fixer" who works for the front operation of the film company.(It seems like a missed opportunity of several kinds--story, acting, scenery--that no one has made a movie of any of these books.) Zen comes across as less gloomy and curmudgeonly than in most of the other books, his chief complaint being the Calabrian cuisine, everything drowned in tomato sauce.
Dibdin died in 2007, but in spite of the title, I don't believe he was intentionally writing a last book. Still, the end is the end. Buona notte, Aurelio Zen. You'll be missed.