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Van der Valk season three coming to PBS Masterpiece

18 August, 2023

Here’s one that will interest crime fiction lovers in North America. Season three of the British crime series Van der Valk is coming to PBS Masterpiece with three feature-length episodes beginning on Sunday 3 September 2023. This time around, Commissaris Piet Van der Valk of…

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Little Sister by David Hewson

By Vicki Weisfeld

28 April, 2016

This third police procedural in Hewson’s Netherlands series again features Amsterdam police brigadier Pieter Vos and his misfit Frieslander colleague, Laura Bakker. The story centres on the plight of Mia and Kim Timmers, orphaned twins – originally from a set of triplets – who have…

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Into the Night by Jake Woodhouse

By DavidPrestidge

29 March, 2015

When a corpse is found, minus its head and with both hands blowtorched to a crisp, Amsterdam cop Inspector Jaap Rykel realises he has something unusual to deal with. Even more disturbing is that the man’s mobile phone contains pictures of Rykel and his houseboat…

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The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey

By DavidPrestidge

16 August, 2014

Amsterdam copper Henk van der Pol is old school. Now in his 50s, his daughter is away at university, and all around him bright young things are moving up through the police ranks. He has been an institution man for much of his working life…

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After the Silence by Jake Woodhouse

By DavidPrestidge

2 May, 2014

Bleak, pre-Christmas Amsterdam. The twinkling of fairy lights in festive windows does nothing to hide the obscenity of the body found hanging from a pulley above the frozen waters of a canal. Inspector Jaap Rykel, fresh from the indignity of having his houseboat broken into,…

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The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez

By Keith Nixon

1 May, 2014

It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since The Devil’s Playground first came out. The book received widespread acclaim and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger, which goes to a top new writer each year. With this debut novel, crime fiction…

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10 years later: The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez

By crimefictionlover

29 April, 2014

On 1 May 2014, Faber & Faber will be celebrating the anniversary of the arrival of a great new talent in British crime fiction. Yes, it’s 10 years since The Devil’s Playground by Stav Sherez first came out, and it’s being marked with a special…

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Interview: Jake Woodhouse

By DavidPrestidge

29 April, 2014

New author Jake Woodhouse recently secured a publishing deal with none other than Penguin Books. Set in Amsterdam, his debut novel is After the Silence and will bring us a dark tale of child abduction, paedophilia and a new detective called Jaap Rykel. It’s also…

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Van der Valk season three coming to PBS Masterpiece

Little Sister by David Hewson

Into the Night by Jake Woodhouse

The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey

After the Silence by Jake Woodhouse

The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez

10 years later: The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez

Interview: Jake Woodhouse

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