When Cornmissario Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years before, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant local government department. But when the bureaucrat rings Brunetti at work, clearly scared and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly going on that has implications rather greater than the fate of Guldo's own apartment...
Accolades
Winner of Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award 2000.
Shortlisted for Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction 2000.
Author Biography
DONNA LEON has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived in Switzerland, Iran, Saudi Arabia and China, where she worked as a teacher. She now combines writing with teaching at a university near Venice. Friends in High Places is Donna Leon's ninth Brunetti novel.
