For fans of Simeon and Nicholas Freeling, here is the first of a delightful new series of detective novels by a Dutch writer who combines a background in Zen philosophy with his experience on the Amsterdam police force.
The owner of a slezy restaurant-cumcommune in the old quater of Amsterdam is dead; his body hangs from a rafter, at first glance a suicide, at the second a murder.
The plot is as full of unexpected twists and turns as Amsterdam itself, the climax is exiting, and the conclusion will surprise and satisfy connoisseurs of detective fiction as well as loving observers of human nature. Amsterdam, detective,police