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What a great novel that is about the end of the cooperation of Grijpstra & De Gier in this interesting novel that is basically a showdown between the commissaris and his boyhood friend that chose for money and the better things in live and thus a life of crime.
A thunderclap preceded sudden hard-driving rain, blotting out the shots, two significant little bangs compared to the divine anger burst forth, booming in splendor. When the rain fell, Ijsbreker fell too
And so open a book about murder and corruption. That seems to take over the Amsterdam police force. A few cases get closed and some ignored because some money exchanges hands. When the commissaris returns from vacation he wants some cases re-opened and this not very well accepted. So while the commissaris gets investigated and sergeant the Gier is suspended and Grijpstra on sick leave they actually continue the investigation against a foe of the commissaris from his youth. His dark morality versus the righteousness of the good cops.
It is an interesting tale in which we see de Gier struggling against the bounds of his own morality which sends him at the end on a path of revenge and to the other side of the world. Grijpstra gets a new sergeant, Karate & Ketchup have made detectives and turtle still lives in the garden.
I had not read this book before so that changes at the end of the book took me by surprise but still felt good. The characters as written by van De Wetering have seen growth in the personalities from the first book onward and what happens at the end of this book feels right. The crusade this time is inevitable a tale about the commissaris and less about Grijpstra & De Gier but that is fine.
Janwillem van de Wetering writes interesting stories about crime and punishment that are less black and white than the average crime writer. You can recognize the zen Buddhism background of the writer and it gives the stories something special.
Looking forward to reading the next one.
A thunderclap preceded sudden hard-driving rain, blotting out the shots, two significant little bangs compared to the divine anger burst forth, booming in splendor. When the rain fell, Ijsbreker fell too
And so open a book about murder and corruption. That seems to take over the Amsterdam police force. A few cases get closed and some ignored because some money exchanges hands. When the commissaris returns from vacation he wants some cases re-opened and this not very well accepted. So while the commissaris gets investigated and sergeant the Gier is suspended and Grijpstra on sick leave they actually continue the investigation against a foe of the commissaris from his youth. His dark morality versus the righteousness of the good cops.
It is an interesting tale in which we see de Gier struggling against the bounds of his own morality which sends him at the end on a path of revenge and to the other side of the world. Grijpstra gets a new sergeant, Karate & Ketchup have made detectives and turtle still lives in the garden.
I had not read this book before so that changes at the end of the book took me by surprise but still felt good. The characters as written by van De Wetering have seen growth in the personalities from the first book onward and what happens at the end of this book feels right. The crusade this time is inevitable a tale about the commissaris and less about Grijpstra & De Gier but that is fine.
Janwillem van de Wetering writes interesting stories about crime and punishment that are less black and white than the average crime writer. You can recognize the zen Buddhism background of the writer and it gives the stories something special.
Looking forward to reading the next one.
