Friends In High Places
- ISBN-10
- 1407070541
- ISBN-13
- 9781407070544
- Series
- Friends in High Places
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-04-13
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Donna Leon
Description
'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 Winner of the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger Award for Fiction __________________________________ 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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