What begins as a red-tape headache for Commissario Brunetti regarding his Venice apartment building ends in murder after a bureaucrat on the case is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. The winner of the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Daggeravailable for the first time in the United States.
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What begins as a red-tape headache for Commissario Brunetti regarding his Venice apartment building ends in murder after a bureaucrat on the case is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. The winner of the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Daggeravailable for the first time in the United States.
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In this ninth foray into Venetian politics and crime, Donna Leon's writing really shines. Guido Brunetti and his family are involved in a problem -- Was their apartment legally constructed after the war? The young man who brings the bad news is soon killed.
Brunetti wants to handle the problem himself; he does not want to use the 'people in high places' that he knows (specifically his father-in-law, the Comte or the Contessa). When the problem arises, in no way does Guido or Paola consider going to the bureaucracy directly -- but look to other machinations to make the problem to go away.
The characters are memorable and the situations seem so much taken from the headlines. Guido is "Everyman" -- trying to do the right thing under impossible odds. This series just seems to get better.
Guido Brunetti
1. Death at La Fenice (1992)
2. Death in a Strange Country (1993)
3. The Anonymous Venetian (1994) aka Dressed for Death
4. A Venetian Reckoning (1995) aka Death and Judgment
5. Acqua Alta (1996) aka Death in High Water
6. The Death of Faith (1997) aka Quietly in Their Sleep
7. A Noble Radiance (1997)
8. Fatal Remedies (1998)
**9. Friends in High Places (1999)
maryross
Jun 4, 2009
one of her best
Commisario Brunetti is splendid in a well thought out :who dunnit". Leon's knowledge of her adopted home and all its' quirks are employed beautifully. She is a smart, gifted teller of tales.