Hard Rain (Amsterdam Cops #11) (Paperback)
$15.95
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Other Books in Series
This is book number 11 in the Amsterdam Cops series.
- #1: Outsider in Amsterdam (Amsterdam Cops #1) (Paperback): $9.99
- #2: Tumbleweed (Amsterdam Cops #2) (Paperback): $15.95
- #3: The Corpse on the Dike (Amsterdam Cops #3) (Paperback): $16.95
- #4: Death of a Hawker (Amsterdam Cops #4) (Paperback): $16.95
- #5: The Japanese Corpse (Amsterdam Cops #5) (Paperback): $15.95
- #6: The Blond Baboon (Amsterdam Cops #6) (Paperback): $16.95
- #7: The Maine Massacre (Amsterdam Cops #7) (Paperback): $16.95
- #8: The Mind-Murders (Amsterdam Cops #8) (Paperback): $16.95
- #9: The Streetbird (Amsterdam Cops #9) (Paperback): $16.95
- #10: The Rattle-Rat (Amsterdam Cops #10) (Paperback): $16.95
- #12: Just a Corpse at Twilight (Amsterdam Cops #12) (Paperback): $16.95
- #13: The Hollow-Eyed Angel (Amsterdam Cops #13) (Paperback): $16.95
- #14: The Perfidious Parrot (Amsterdam Cops #14) (Paperback): $16.95
Description
During a random break-in, three heroin addicts discover the corpse of banker Martin Ijsbreker. They arrange his death to look like a suicide and flee with his valuables, but are found dead of an overdose the next day. The investigating officer dismissed their deaths as an accident, but the commissaris suspects that his cousin and childhood nemesis, Willem Fernandus, murdered Ijsbreker to protect his own shares in the dead man’s bank. When the two finally confront each other as adversaries, someone will die.
About the Author
Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, including Outsider in Amsterdam; The Corpse on the Dike; the short story collection The Sergeant’s Cat; The Maine Massacre, which garnered him the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; and ten other books in the Amsterdam Cops series.
Praise For…
Praise for Hard Rain
"Good thrillers are necessarily about good versus evil, but hardly any thrillers try to explore the philosophical nature of either one . . . A couple of attending virtues make Janwillem van de Wetering's new novel more than a routine case of venality and violence. One is a world-weary humor . . . the other is an exploration of a good guy's ethic and a bad guy's ethos."
—Los Angeles Times
"One of the more fetching outings for van de Wetering's offbeat Amsterdam cops—offering a leisurely, whimsical mixture of resourceful action, psychological confrontation, and philosophical repartee . . . An engaging excursion, dark-edged yet oddly lighthearted."
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
"A fast-moving story that combines action, detection, satire, Zen philosophy and pure fun, and shows van de Wetering to be at the top of his form."
—Publishers Weekly
