Friends in high places
By: Donna Leon
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780143117063; 9780143114147
Subjects: Usury; Murder; Police; Investigation; Drug abuse; Guido Brunetti (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Investigating the lack of a building permit for Commissioner Brunetti's apartment, a young bureaucrat uncovers a frightening secret and promptly dies from an apparently accidental fall; investigating his death in turn, Brunetti is drawn into a world of drugs, loan-sharking, and corruption.