Cosi Fan Tutti

Unconventional policeman Aurelio Zen’s comfortable life is disturbed by a series of disappearances, a knifing, a plot to destroy two romances and, finally, his missing mother.

Posted to Naples – at his own request – Aurelio Zen is more than content with his life. At work he comes late and leaves early. His staff are loyal and he ensures that they have a vested interest in being so. He has a strong friendship with a lady of many charms, Valeria Squillace, who knows him as Alfonso Zembla, an accidental pseudonym that is proving invaluable. And then, in a way that our unconventional policeman could not have anticipated, everything falls apart.

A knifing, a series of vanished persons, a lost American, suspected Mafioso, a plot to destroy two romances and, finally, Aurelio’s missing mother, all come together to shatter his comfortable new life.

Michael Dibdin is in sparkling form in 'Cosi Fan Tutti', twisting his plot with panache.

Read by Martin Shaw