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Description: ISBN 0099269325 / Author: Donna Leon / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Commissario Brunetti is visited by Guido, a young bureaucrat concerned ... more
Friends in High Places - Donna Leon ... about the lack of official approval to build his appartment block years before. When he is later found dead Brunetti begins to investigate. The detective is drawn into an underworld of drug abuse and loan-sharking.

Newest Review: ... waiting - hoping - to see Commissario Brunetti on his way to work. We saw her on TV some time ago and heard her talking ... more

 ... about ‘her’ Venice, she even told us which restaurants she favours. I find that rather odd: Donna Leon, the real person, invites tourists, whereas Donna Leon, the author, likes tourist bashing and includes sarcastic or ridiculous remarks in all her books. “Many people at Rialto?“ “Not when I got there...but by the time I was leaving, it was packed. Most of them were tourists, come, as far as I could see, to take pictures of other tourists. In a few ...more

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Crowned Review Friends in High Places - Donna Leon: The Dark Sides of Venice (2311 words)
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What do the authors Timothy Holme, Magdalen Nabb, Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon have in common? They are all British or American, lived or still live in Italy and wrote or still write thrillers set in Italy. One could see them as a kind of ‘school’, only that they don’t work together, maybe not even know each other. To be sure, the relationship between Germany and Italy has always been much closer than the one between Great Britain, the USA and Italy; the countries being nearer to each other is only one reason. Italians have immigrated, lived and worked in Germany for over 40 years now, German school children can and do learn Italian in ...  Read the complete review

 

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