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In the second novel by the internationally bestselling Pieter Aspe, Inspector Van In races against the clock to thwart a series of terrorist plots

One quiet snow-covered Sunday morning in Bruges, a prominent business executive is found dead in the streets, apparently due to an alcoholic hemorage, but for Inspector Van In, there is a something about the autopsy that does not add up. When he questions the businessman’s friend, a Dutchman, he too is found dead the next morning, burned to death in a house fire.

When there is an explosion in the middle of a popular tourist area in downtown Bruges, Van In strives to find the connection between the three incidents, but no one is coming forward to claim responsibility for this terrorist attack. Just an anonymous letter to the police, threatening more bombings―unless they cooperate with a series of demands that would undermine the entire city government.

Aided by the spunky and beautiful assistant DA Hannelore Maartens, Inspector Van In finds himself enmeshed in the case that threatens not just the lives of countless of innocent people, but the heart of the city he loves.

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Pieter Aspe is the author of a series detective stories starring inspector Van In.  The Square of Revenge was the first novel to be translated into English.  Pieter lives in Bruges, Belgium, and is one of the most popular writers contemporary writers in the Flemish language.
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Aspe enjoys enormous success in Belgium, where his procedurals starring Bruges detective Van In are best-sellers. One of these has been translated from Flemish into English, The Square of Revenge (2013). This second Aspe novel should appeal to readers who love Northern European noir. The viewpoint is bleak, and the hero is irascible, cold, rumpled, chain-smoking, alcoholic, and barely functional. There is some relief in the city of Bruges. The translation from the Flemish often sounds stilted and is crowded with awkward similes, such as “The Commissioner grinned like a spoiled Alzheimer’s patient.” The mystery itself, starting with the death of a very drunk German businessman, moving to the incineration of the businessman’s friend the next day, and involving the largest tourist operation in Europe, keeps growing in intensity even though Van In seems poorly equipped to solve anything without his DA girlfriend’s help. The bombing of a statue of a Belgian poet in a public square moves the mystery into terrorism territory. Probably better in the original Flemish but a fairly good destination mystery. --Connie Fletcher

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  • PublisherPegasus Crime
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 1605984876
  • ISBN 13 9781605984872
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages336
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