Title: Aurelio Zen Lite
Product review: Fans of the late Michael Dibden's Aurelio Zen novels will enjoy this. Camillieri does not write as well as Dibden, but this may be a problem with the translation. While Dibden based all his Zen novels in Italy (with the occasional excursion abroad), he wrote in English. Indeed readers who are familiar with Dibden's Blood Rain may get something of a sense of deja vue about the opening scene in The Shape of Water.This is also quite a short novel and a lot happens fast, so reading it it requires concentration. I read it in about an hour and half and it certainly held my attention to the end. My only serious criticism is that too many characters are introduced too quickly which makes it hard work to try and remember who is who. Maybe this will be less of a problem as one reads more books in the series and gets to know the characters - or at least the policemen and women.
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