Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
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Friends in High Places

Author: Donna Leon

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2013

Synopsis

In Friends in High Places, Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of approval for the building of Brunetti's apartment years before. What began as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucrat is later found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that will take him into the unfamiliar and dangerous areas of drug abuse and loan-sharking, and will reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have friends in high places.

About Donna Leon

American author, Donna Leon, has settled nicely into a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy entitled, Brunettixote. The novels feature the fictional character of Commissario Guido Brunetti.

Leon was born in 1942, and eventually lived in Venice, Italy for over 30 years. She was an English literature lecturer for the University of Maryland in Europe (Italy), and worked on a military base in Italy for several years, before she became a full time writer. She moved to Zurich, Switzerland, and also had a home in a smaller Swiss village.

The novels have been translated from English into several foreign languages, but for some reason the author did not approve them being translated into Italian. German television has shown 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes that they produced for broadcast.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex is The Romance Fox on January 25, 2016

Friends in High Places, the 9th novel in the Commissario Brunetti Series starts with Brunetti enjoying a relaxing day at his home, which is interrupted by the news of an official from Officio Castato, the registrar of buildings in Venice, that his apartment on the top floor of one of the oldest buil......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on December 26, 2021

Book 9 in the Commissario Brunetti series is not quite up to the others by this wonderful author. A lot goes and and Brunetti is forced to face a few deaths which turn out to be murders, as will as Vice Questore Patta's sons drug possession arrest. To top that off we have a scandal in the city plann......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on February 01, 2015

I'm surprised to see some of the negative ratings here. Perhaps it's because you need to get to know the characters and appreciate the interplay between Guido, his wife, Paula, and his children. Or, it could be that some folks just prefer action-packed shoot-em-ups rather (I can appreciate those too......more

Goodreads review by Greg on June 02, 2021

I found a tattered copy of this book in my local street library, and started that day without great expectations - I wasn't a big fan of the long-running Italian series when it played on SBS - how wrong I was. It proved to be a gripping and fast read full of well-drawn characters good and bad, and a......more

Goodreads review by Joe on September 18, 2020

This is the ninth adventure of Venice Police Commissioner Guido Brunetti. Guido is one small man with a badge who is continually pitted against the big wheel of Italian corruption - which he inadvertently stumbles into book after book while doing his job - which is usually solving murder cases. Thes......more

Quotes

“All Donna Leon’s novels are excellent in their evocation of place, while in Brunetti she has created a character who becomes more real in each book…However, Friends in High Places is by far the best and marks a quantum leap forward.” Evening Standard (London)

“Leon is a skillful plotter…Brunetti is a nicely shaded creation, a moral man who is also all too human. Friends in High Places is a splendid read, clever and provoking.” Observer (London)

“Friends in High Places is an elegant police procedural set in beautifully imagined Venice.” Sunday Times (London)

Awards

  • CWA Silver Dagger
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