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Blond Baboon
by Janwillem Van De Wetering
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Grijpstra and de Grier are called to an elegant townhouse where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found in her garden with a broken neck. The slippery steps - and the lady's drinking problem - make it look like an accident. But the dead woman's wealth, a neighborhood pet poisoner, and an ex-lover nicknamed "the Baboon" convince the commissaris that it's murder.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Maine Massacre
by Janwillem Van De Wetering
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The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends the commissaris to the secluded town of Jameson, Maine. De Gier goes along to see the USA. But there has been a sinister series of deaths in the area and the two find themselves neck-deep in a murder investigation involving shady real estate deals, with a townful of suspects, and the icy breath of a cold-blooded killer stalking their every move.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Outsider in Amsterdam
by Janwillem Van De Wetering
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Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune in a quiet Amsterdam street. Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide.
Outsider in Amsterdam is the first in The Amsterdam Cops series of internationally renowned mysteries. It was originally published in the United States twenty years ago. There are now twelve novels in the series which has been publis... more info>>
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Rattle-Rat
by Janwillem Van De Wetering
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Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum. But since Grijpstra is Friesan by birth and can understand the dialect, he and his partner de Gier are dispatched to find the killer--or at least the motive for the crime. And they discover that whi... more info>>
Category: Mystery/Crime
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