Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
Friends in High Places, Donna Leon
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Friends in High Places
A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

Author: Donna Leon

Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2025

Synopsis

Winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Friends in High Places is the ninth novel in Leon's bestselling and highly acclaimed Commissario Guido Brunetti series.

“Leon tells the story as if she loves Venice as much as her detective does, warts and all. The plot and subplots unfold elegantly; beauty and the beast march hand in hand, and the result is rich entertainment.” —The Sunday Times (London)

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 in murder when the bureaucrat is 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.

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

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