Friends in High Places

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Review #1

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In what may be the quintessential Guido Brunetti novel, our hero faces unanswerable questions of right and wrong in both his personal and professional lives.

I will confess to being a die-hard Brunetti fan, but within the series not all books are created equal. This one will fall into my top three.

We see plenty of the Brunetti offspring and of two of my favorite female characters in contemporary fiction – Guido’s aristocratic wife Paola and the power-behind-the-throne at the questura, Signorina Elettra.

Although Brunetti often despairs of the convoluted bureaucracy of Venice, here he becomes completely entangled within its strangling tendrils. Against his better judgement, he uses his connections and social debts to uncover the truth regarding the death a man he met in oddly upsetting circumstances. Along the way, he drags many others into the maelstrom he started.

David Colacci is Guido Brunetti to my ear. As always, he does a fine job with this book giving personality to my favorite Venetian Commissario.

Review #2

Friends in High Places audiobook in series Commissario Brunetti Mysteries

I’m addicted to this series! (I almost stopped writing reviews because of 2 “Audible Haters” who have systematically gone through all of my submissions and marking them “Not Helpful” for no reason other than spite. But last week, I reported the harassment so the website reps are investigating to find out WHO the perpetrators are.)

Although this series can be a bit inconsistent, overall most of the novels are worth the rare miss. The characters are finely drawn and the added detail about Venice makes the listener feel as if we are really there. Narrator David Colacci is perfect. Not so much a thriller than a great detective mystery, the slower pace is worth the plot twists and turns which always keep you guessing.

Review #3

Audiobook Friends in High Places by Donna Leonm

Donna Leon writes a great story! I love these books. However, this was not as good as others. I didn’t like the ending and I felt there was at least one storyline that went nowhere. That being said, Guido, and Paola, and Chiara, and Rafi, as well as everyone at the Questura, and Venice itself are the best characters and I love escaping to their world. The narration by David Colacci is top notch. I’m glad there are so many more books.

I love this book in the Guido Brunetti series! It was / is very interesting. The details in this book (and all of the other ones) is very good. It doesn’t matter if you listen to the book series in order they are stand alone books in the series so they don’t build up on each other.

Review #4

Audio Friends in High Places narrated by David Colacci

From bureaucratic red tape to cover-up murders in Venice. A young bureaucrat comes to warn Brunetti that his home may be demolished over a paperwork issue, calls Brunetti on a police matter, and is brutally murdered. That is the first murder. In the course of the investigation there are more murders, more corruption, moral dilemmas, and more. Another excellent example of the author’s craft!
David Colacci is the voice of Guido Brunetti to my mind. As always, he does a fine job with this series giving personality to each and every character.

Review #5

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In Friends in High Places by Donna Leon, we go to the city of Venice with Commissario Guido Brunetti. One Saturday morning Guido gets a visit from Franco Rossi, an official who is investigating Brunetti’s apartment, which the man indicates might have to be torn down because there is no record of the existence of any approved plans for this top floor apartment. That seems to be the end of any contact with Rossi when the young man calls Brunetti at his work because he has found corruption in his government office. Concerned that any telefonino (cell phone) could easily be bugged, Brunetti tells Rossi to call him back from a public telephone, and that is the last that he hears from Rossi. A couple days later, Brunetti sees an article in the paper that Rossi has fallen from a building in the course of his work and is in a coma, something that greatly disturbs Brunetti because Rossi was terrified of heights and should never have been so high in the first place. When Brunetti gets to the hospital to investigate, he finds Rossi dead and the hospital treatment questionable at best, but likely a result of malpractice.

The book takes a turn as Brunetti gets pulled into several cases related to drugs. He faces a really sad case when a building superintendent reports to the police the discovery of a 20-year-old student who has overdosed on heroin. He has only been discovered due to complaints about the bad odor, which becomes almost unbearable inside the room with the body. Heartbreakingly, the young man got clean earlier, causing the previously standard dosage to become too strong for him. The body sits with an expression on his face showing recognition of his having made an error, and the needle still remains in his arm. The grief of the young man’s parents inspires Brunetti to look into the drug problem in Venice, which fortunately the major dealers consider not lucrative enough to invest any effort in. This also crosses into a sideline investigation into exorbitant money lenders.

While the book focuses overtly on the theme of drug abuse, the subtext is the issue of class and how people of all classes can get into drugs and other crime. Being rich does not exempt a family from facing drug or criminal problems, neither does being poor. In addition, no one should be exempt from the law, not due to wealth or position.

This book does an excellent job of making Brunetti’s life and trails of investigation become truly real to life. We become part of his family and grieve with him as he mourns the waste of young lives with drugs. We also feel the love Brunetti experiences for his family and enjoy seeing the back and forth between him and his wife, Paola.

And speaking of Paola, I appreciate the illustration of a strong, intelligent, and independent woman who is still capable of being a good mother and wife. She shows that being a professor does not prohibit her from being an effective family woman, instead rearing two capable children with strong values.

David Colacci provides a strong performance in his reading of this book. He has a great accent and voice for this role, sounding legitimately Italian to my American ears. He does a good job of interpreting Leon’s work that transports us to the city of Venice.

Leon does a powerful job of introducing us not only to strong mysteries but also vividly takes us to the city where she has lived for multiple decades. With frequent smatterings of Italian, especially police positions, and descriptions of food in Venice, her books contain a whole lot of flavor. Friends in High Places also takes us to Venice, but not as vividly as most other books by Leon have read. Further, the mystery was interesting, but not as compelling as the other books either. I give this book 3 stars.

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