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| Title | : | Friends in High Places (Commissario Brunetti #9) |
| Author | : | Donna Leon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 326 pages |
| Published | : | March 2001 by Arrow Books (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Cultural. Italy. Fiction |
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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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| Original Title: | Friends in High Places (Commissario Brunetti, #9) |
| ISBN: | 0099269325 (ISBN13: 9780099269328) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti #9 |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
| Literary Awards: | The Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction (2000) |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 5776 Users | 395 ReviewsCommentary About Books Friends in High Places (Commissario Brunetti #9)
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. These books are pseudo-police procedurals/mysteries. I use the term pseudo because the culprits are either known from the very beginning or tossed in at the very end. The series is also very formulaicAlso under the title "The Dark Side of Venice"(The ninth book in the Guido Brunetti series)One day, Commissario Brunetti is visited by Franco Rossi, a young bureaucrat concerned about the lack of official approval to build his apartment years before. There are no existing plans for this addition in the registry's office; in fact, on record, the flat was never built. The Brunetti family fears a blackmail scenario, resulting in demolition or an enormous fine even though the original construction
It's all in who you know. Venice is much like Chicago in that regard.
Donna Leon has a new book in her Guido Brunetti series. It is the 28th book in the series. It opened on The New York Times best sellers list. It sounds interesting and I would really like to read it, but I am committed to reading the books of the series in order and I'm only up to number nine. At the rate I am going, it will be years before I can legitimately read number twenty-eight.On the bright side, that means that I have a lot of entertaining reading ahead of me. My pleasure in reading this
I picked up this book in a charity shop as part of an offer - 5 paperbacks for £1 so I suppose I only paid 20p for it but, seemingly like many of the Venetians in the story, I was robbed. I kept waiting for the plot to thicken but it never did and the only way it could be described as a page turner is because the print is so big.I found the constant references to corruption, apathy and incompetence amongst the officialdom of Italy rather depressing and if this is truly the state of affairs I am
Commissario Guido Brunetti, of the Venice police, links two crimes in a gripping twist at the end of this mystery. Signorina Elletra, his trusty (and fashionably trendy) researcher (and his slimy boss Patta's secretary), fearlessly assists Brunetti as she has in past cases. I especially enjoy learning about the intricacies of governmental and political corruption in Italy that Leon smoothly exposes (and about which Brunetti and his strong-willed wife, Paola, endlessly commiserate). Consistently
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) than character and place studies. I suspect if you like DeKok and Maigret these will really appeal to you.That being said, I really enjoyed Anna Fields reading this 9th in the series. Again, Italian
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