When Inspector Zen receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life - a posting to Sicily - he will need all his cunning and skill to survive in a world where unwritten rules are enforced with ruthless violence, one false step can prove fatal, and the truth must be paid for in blood. The gruesome discovery of a decomposed corpse in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the ancient city of Catania, in the shadow of Mount Etna, Blood Rain reveals Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven.