“[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull.”
—John Leonard
The Grijpstra and De Gier Investigation Series
Setting: Holland
Number of Crimes (Titles in Series): 15
Last Seen (Most recent title): The Sergeant’s Cat: Collected Stories
Series includes: Outsider in Amsterdam, Tumbleweed, The Corpse on the Dike, Death of Hawker, The Japanese Corpse, The Blond Baboon, The Maine Massacre, The Mind-Murders, The Streetbird, The Rattle-Rat, Hard Rain, Just a Corpse at Twilight, Hollow-Eyed Angels, The Perfidious Parrot, The Sergeant’s Cat: Collected Stories
Janwillem van de Wetering (1931-2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, including Outsider in Amsterdam; The Corpse on the Dike; the short story collection The Sergeant’s Cat; The Maine Massacre, which garnered him the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; and other books in the Amsterdam Cops series.
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