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Friends in High Places (Commissario Brunetti, #9)

Donna Leon

Start date: February 15, 2025

Finish date: March 8, 2025

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Why we're reading this: Continuing our buddy reads of this popular series
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Feb 13, 2025 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the ninth in the Brunetti series, and we see our main character on a Saturday morning, home alone, reading and relaxing when the doorbell rings. The visitor is a young man named Franco Rossi, who in a bizarre, Venetian example of red tape, has arrived to inform him there is doubt of the official status of his apartment which does not seem to legally exist...

Like so many things in Venice, the problem this involves (the possible destruction of the Brunetti family home) seems to recede whe ...more

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Jul 12, 2020 Jan C rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I am pretty sure that I read this before and probably would have given it a higher marking then. I knew I had read it before when I saw that this was the one where his apartment was in question. I did not recall the whole story though. It was good even on a re-read. Although the ending kind of snuck up on me.

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Feb 17, 2025 Sandy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-detective-grp, read-2025

Venice, and Italy, are not portrayed sympathetically, but Brunetti's integrity and marriage are inspirational. Excellent plot with a surprising opening, unimaginable to most of us. I felt there was a plot point left unexplained, but that reflects true police work. ...more

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Apr 29, 2017 jaadhimalli rated it liked it

I read books where a dead body is found within first 20 pages. In this book, the dead body comes in only after about 60 pages. Am surprised i stuck with this book. I didn't find this book as impressive as 'Death at la Fenice'. ...more

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