<b>The winner of the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger?available for the first time in the United States</b><br><br> Donna Leon?s sophisticated Commissario Brunetti series has won her legions of fans over the years. In <i>Friends in High Places</i>, Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of Brunetti?s apartment years before. What began as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucrat is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. Brunetti starts an investigation that will take him into unfamiliar and dangerous areas of Venetian life, and will reveal, once again, what a difference it makes to have friends in high places.
