Two issues I really like in books = regional quirks in mysteries + pet Siamese cats, so I fell actually onerous a number of years in the past for Janwillem van de Wetering’s Amsterdam Cops collection (which I handed on to my husband, who additionally beloved it). If you happen to’re in want of a pleasant, new-to-you bunch of reads (they’re fairly simple to seek out on-line), test them out: the writer was each an precise policeman and a Zen pupil who spent a 12 months in a monastery, and his crime novels (largely revealed within the ’70s) are a delightfully healthful Dutch model of TRUE DETECTIVE, the place as an alternative of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson you get this bizarre and really philosophical buddy collection a few roly-poly previous family-man cop who companions with a flashy women’ man in denim fits (he has the Siamese cat, Oliver), and once they’re not fixing crimes they only type of wordlessly meet up on the workplace and jam on some drums the older cup seized in a case and a flute the youthful cop carries in his denim go well with?? In one of many books, if reminiscence serves, a witness joins in on a groove session.
To cite a evaluate of the primary e-book within the collection, “As long-time followers know, Outsider in Amsterdam, like different van de Wetering mysteries, is just not a e-book to learn for pleasure, violence, or catharsis. It’s a ‘soft-boiled’ thriller to interact one’s mind and evoke the easy-going and permissive perspective of Nineteen Seventies Amsterdam and of its two well-known fictional cops, who’re amazingly chilled-out and who deal with everybody, together with suspects and criminals, with respect and decency.”
