Friends in High Places
by Donna Leon
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Author: Donna LeonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN: 014311414X
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: The stink of corruption is everywhere in Venice...
Summary: 5 Stars
...in Friend's in High Places. The book starts with a surprise visit by a building inspector to Commissario Brunetti's home. During this visit, it comes out that the right paper work may never have been completed for the addition of the floor he lives on, and that it may have to be torn down.
That scarcely sounds like the start of a mystery, but when the inspector dies in a very suspicious incident, the mystery builds quickly. Paralleling this mystery is a sordid tale of what hard drugs are going to Venice. It's a sad, but believable tale.
As Leon has progressed the series, she increasingly likes to introduce moral questions into her plots. Many characters, including Brunetti and his boss, the loathsome Vice-Questore Patta both have to face decisions about when to circumvent the system and ask for favors in high places.
Friend's in High Places stands out for the level of detail about financial corruption in Venetian society. One might almost suspect Leon of having a business background as she takes us through evidence of corruption tax avoidance, and outright fraud. it's a very detailed retelling done with total conviction.
Recommended highly.
Summary of Friends in High Places
The winner of the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger?available for the first time in the United StatesDonna Leon?s sophisticated Commissario Brunetti series has won her legions of fans over the years. In Friends in High Places, Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of Brunetti?s apartment years before. What began as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucrat is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that will take him into unfamiliar and dangerous areas of Venetian life, and will reveal, once again, what a difference it makes to have friends in high places.
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