Because of the Cats: Inspecotr Van der Valk #2 (Inspctr Van Der Valk) - Softcover

Freeling, Nicolas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933397489 ISBN 13: 9781933397481

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem, 2006

Synopsis

Bloemendaal aan Zee, that smugly prosperous little seaside town, has more television sets per capita than anywhere else in Holland. Even its drunks are polite, its houses uniformly tidy and sparkling clean. But there's something very wrong with the kids. The most popular teenagers have formed a gang that is preying, with increasing viciousness, on nearby Amsterdam, Inspector Van der Valk's patch. Van der Valk has no love for chilly, yuppified Bloemendaal. But his curiosity is as voracious as his appetite for good food. And while his colleagues just want the attacks stopped, Van der Valk can't help asking what it is about the town that has turned Bloemendaal's children into monsters.

About this title

About the Author

The novelist Nicolas Freeling, who has died aged 76, was best known for his Van der Valk detective stories and the two television series they inspired.

He was the most thoroughly European of British crime writers. In addition to the Amsterdam detective Piet Van der Valk, whom he rashly killed off in 1972, he created a series of novels based on the more reflective provincial French Inspector Henri Castang. He also wrote exceptional, often underrated, single novels, again set in Europe. He published 37 works of fiction in all, and four miscellaneous works.

Review

Freeling can only be compared to Simenon at his very best --New York Times

One of the most gifted and original writers of crime fiction --The Weekly Standard

Edition details

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933397489
• ISBN 13: 9781933397481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236