The formatting of the ebook I was given was so horrible that the book was essentially unreadable. I lasted through one chapter and then decided my life was too short for this kind of crap. If people want me to provide free reviews, the least they can do is provide readable copies. I'm pretty sur...
bookshelves: summer-2015, dutch, under-500-ratings, series, published-1977, paper-read, hardback, mystery-thriller Read from August 01 to 02, 2015 Description: A riot has erupted in New Market Square, transforming the normally sedate streets of Amsterdam into a mass of angry protesters. So when...
bookshelves: summer-2015, dutch, paper-read, series, under-500-ratings, published-1976, mystery-thriller Read from July 31 to August 01, 2015 Description: A recluse has been shot right between the eyes while standing at his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher and pistol shot champion,...
bookshelves: published-1975, series, dutch, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, summer-2015 Read from June 26 to July 04, 2015 Description: Maria van Buren, a beautiful, high-class prostitute, is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal. Grijpstra and de Gier must so...
bookshelves: paper-read, giftee, summer-2015, amsterdam, bedside, dutch, first-in-series, published-1975, series, cults-societies-brotherhoods, mystery-thriller, translation, filthy-lucre, recreational-homicide, whimsy, amusing Read from June 26 to 28, 2015 Description: On a quiet street in dow...
I had just sent my agent a copy of my latest novel, reams of paper, buckets of sweat, and even some blood from a rather nasty paper cut. I thought the blood added a bit of drama to the work. He called me back and said he’d watched the movie with Robert Redford and had heard the book was really good ...
If your pleasure is the action-driven thriller with cardboard characters, skip this review. Outsider in Amsterdam, the first in the 'Grijpstra and De Gier' series, is based on the characters of Adjutant Henk Grijpstra, weary from life with oppressing wife and children, and Sergeant Rinus De Gier, a ...
John Leonard said of Janwillem van de Wetering, “He is doing what Simenon [author of the wonderful Maigret stories:] might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull.” There is a great resemblance to Simenon — high praise, indeed. Wetering, who served in the Amsterdam Reserve Constabul...
The two Amsterdam police detectives are called in when a woman’s body is found in her houseboat. The interplay between the two cops is a lot of fun.
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