Friends in High Places (Commissario Guido Brunetti Series, Book #9)
by Leon, Donna
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Friends in High Places (Commissario Guido Brunetti Series, Book #9) by Donna Leon
In Donna Leon's ninth novel featuring her celebrated protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself caught up in a typically Venetian problem: red tape over renovations. Visited by a young bureaucrat, Brunetti learns that, officially, his apartment does not exist. The extra floor that was added years before was never approved. But what begins as a troublesome headache ends with the bureaucrat found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that takes him into unfamiliar and dangerous areas of Venetian life, and shows him, once again, what a difference it makes to have friends in high places.
Grove Press, Softcover, 2008
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Donna Leon's latest Commissario Brunetti novel sees her Venetian dete ctive drawn into an underworld of drugs and loan sharking, in her finest exploration of both her city and her character yet.When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department. But when the bureaucrat rings Brunetti at work, clearly scared, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is obviously going on that has implications greater than the fate of Brunetti's apartment ...
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- 2008
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