Title: Friends in High Places - Donna Leon - book
Summary :
"Donna Leon's best novel."
The Evening Standard
No one likes to be interrupted in the middle of reading the Annabase on a Saturday afternoon by an untimely doorbell. Especially not Commissioner Guido Brunetti, a scholar and epicurean cop, and especially not for a murky affair involving a missing building permit for his own apartment...
A mere formality? Not sure. Especially since the overzealous civil servant accidentally falls from a scaffold where he should not have been, in front of witnesses who in turn die suddenly.
Little by little, with the patience and tenacity of a cop accustomed but never resigned to the selfishness of bureaucrats of all stripes, Commissioner Brunetti will uncover the existence of a vast network of corruption. Behind the lavish facade of the City of Doges, the underworld of drug dealers, loan sharks, and crooks rules the roost.
