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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099269328
ISBN: 0099269325
Label: Arrow Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Arrow Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2001-03
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Studio: Arrow Books Ltd
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Venetian cop, Commissario Guido Brunetti, wonders whom he knows to bring pressure on a local government department, to investigate the lack of official building approval on his apartment. But when that same official phones him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is later found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly wrong, something with far greater implications than the fate of Guido's own apartment. Brunetti's investigations take him into the unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts, and the arrest and release of a suspected drug dealer, reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have 'Friends in High Places'.
Rating:
- Intelligent Mystery
Another in her series of intelligent, literate mysteries, with her protagonist Guido Brunetti and his university professor wife, Paola, and their two teenaged children. A delight. Subtle, funny, and clever.
Rating:
- "High Places" deserves high praise
First sentence: When the doorbell rang, Brunetti lay supine on the sofa in his living room, a book propped open on his stomach.
Commissario Guido Brunetti's lazy Saturday is interrupted by a visit from Franco Rossi of the Ufficio Catasto. There is a question about the legality of Guido's apartment. Rossi's fear of heights is apparent when Guido tries to take him out to the terrace so it makes no sense when Guido learns Rossi has died after falling from a scaffold.
Brunetti's ... Read More
Rating: - Not Perfect Leon, But Pretty Close
This is vintage Donna Leon. Excellent descriptions of Venice...memorable characters...thoughtful insights into human qualities of honor, honesty, corruption and arrogance. My only criticism is that the ending is tepid and all issues are not fully resolved, in my opinion. Leon is very uneven as a writer. When she's off, she's terrible. When she's on, she's magnificent. In this book she comes off very close to the latter. I would say this is one of her better books.
Rating: - Among the Best in the Brunetti Series
Friends in High Places is the 9th in Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti series of murder mystery / police procedurals set in Venice. The book appears to be out of print in the U.S., but is readily available in its British edition via several Amazon merchants.
As with most of the Brunetti series, the story has much to do with government corruption. In this case the means of corruption is Venetian real estate, and the outcome is murder. There is also a significant drug connection, leading to the death ... Read More
Rating: - Public Corruption and Personal Values
If you've liked the Guido Brunetti mysteries, you will probably feel that this is one of the best in the series.
What's it all about? Commissario Guido Brunetti meets an honest public official, and crime follows as those who cheat and admire cheaters seek to remain hidden from honest men.
If that's all this book represented, it would be but an average mystery. Ms. Donna Leon adds a more intriguing element to the story: Corrupt practices breed more corruption . . . both of the heart ... Read More
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Friends in High Places
by: Donna Leon
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EAN: 9780099269328
ISBN: 0099269325
Label: Arrow Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Arrow Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2001-03
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Studio: Arrow Books Ltd
Related Items:
- Wilful Behaviour
- A Sea of Troubles
- Fatal Remedies
- Suffer the Little Children: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
- Quietly in Their Sleep
- see more
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Venetian cop, Commissario Guido Brunetti, wonders whom he knows to bring pressure on a local government department, to investigate the lack of official building approval on his apartment. But when that same official phones him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is later found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly wrong, something with far greater implications than the fate of Guido's own apartment. Brunetti's investigations take him into the unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts, and the arrest and release of a suspected drug dealer, reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have 'Friends in High Places'.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- Intelligent MysteryAnother in her series of intelligent, literate mysteries, with her protagonist Guido Brunetti and his university professor wife, Paola, and their two teenaged children. A delight. Subtle, funny, and clever.
Rating:
- "High Places" deserves high praiseFirst sentence: When the doorbell rang, Brunetti lay supine on the sofa in his living room, a book propped open on his stomach.
Commissario Guido Brunetti's lazy Saturday is interrupted by a visit from Franco Rossi of the Ufficio Catasto. There is a question about the legality of Guido's apartment. Rossi's fear of heights is apparent when Guido tries to take him out to the terrace so it makes no sense when Guido learns Rossi has died after falling from a scaffold.
Brunetti's ... Read More
Rating:
- Not Perfect Leon, But Pretty CloseThis is vintage Donna Leon. Excellent descriptions of Venice...memorable characters...thoughtful insights into human qualities of honor, honesty, corruption and arrogance. My only criticism is that the ending is tepid and all issues are not fully resolved, in my opinion. Leon is very uneven as a writer. When she's off, she's terrible. When she's on, she's magnificent. In this book she comes off very close to the latter. I would say this is one of her better books.
Rating:
- Among the Best in the Brunetti SeriesFriends in High Places is the 9th in Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti series of murder mystery / police procedurals set in Venice. The book appears to be out of print in the U.S., but is readily available in its British edition via several Amazon merchants.
As with most of the Brunetti series, the story has much to do with government corruption. In this case the means of corruption is Venetian real estate, and the outcome is murder. There is also a significant drug connection, leading to the death ... Read More
Rating:
- Public Corruption and Personal ValuesIf you've liked the Guido Brunetti mysteries, you will probably feel that this is one of the best in the series.
What's it all about? Commissario Guido Brunetti meets an honest public official, and crime follows as those who cheat and admire cheaters seek to remain hidden from honest men.
If that's all this book represented, it would be but an average mystery. Ms. Donna Leon adds a more intriguing element to the story: Corrupt practices breed more corruption . . . both of the heart ... Read More
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
