Donna Leon: Friends In High Places, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Brunetti erhält Besuch von einem Bürokraten, der prüfen soll, warum keine offizielle Genehmigung für den Umbau seiner Wohnung vorliegt. Typisch venezianisch, überlegt Brunetti, wen er für eine nachträgliche Genehmigung bestechen muss. Als sein Besucher dann ermordet wird, ermittelt Brunetti. Sein 9. Fall führt ihn zu Kredithaien und Drogendealern; in eine Welt, in der es wichtig ist, Freunde in hohen Positionen zu haben. Detective novel writer Donna Leon's ninth book in the bestselling Commissario Brunetti crime series sees her Venetian hero drawn into an underworld of drugs and loan sharking.

Beschreibung

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 ...

Rezension

"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

Klappentext

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.