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Format: Paperback
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Author:
Donna Leon
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099536581
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EAN: 9780099536581
Published: 26 Feb 2009
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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Leon's best so far ... I don't think I could really understand a crime fan who didn't love Donna Leon
- Scotland on Sunday
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.
- Sunday Times
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
Leon is a skilful 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
- The Observer
Friends in High Places [is an] elegant police procedural set in beautifully imagined Venice
- Sunday Times
Beautifully written and immaculately plotted, Friend in High Places is further proof that Leon can do no wrong
- The Scotsman
With her usual skilful plotting and perfectly judged pace…this is Leon’s best so far
- Scotland on Sunday
Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna’s books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world.
Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.
