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A review by constantreader471
Tumbleweed by Janwillem van de Wetering
4.0
I enjoyed reading this book and rate it a solid 4 stars out of 5. I received it through NetGalley from Soho crime. Soho crime is celebrating 25 years of publishing international crime fiction with a reading challenge. I'm reading my way through Janwillem van de Wetering over the next two months.
This is book 2 in the Grijpstra & de Gier series. Maria van Buren, a high class prostitute, is found murdered aboard a boat in an Amsterdam canal. She is originally from Curacao in the Caribbean.
How Grijpstra, de Gier and their boss, the commissaris, solve this murder makes an interesting and enjoyable read. There is a trip to Curacao, witchcraft, some tedious legwork-- checking alibis and some serendipity conversations which lead to the ingenious murderer. Grijpstra and de Gier are quirky detectives, not above stopping work in the middle of the day and going to de Gier's apartment to sit and relax.
Some quotes: "Society is all balls. A lot of egotists thinking of themselves only. Insects locked in a bottle and all they can do is bite each other."
"He used to remind me of a tumbleweed."
This is book 2 in the Grijpstra & de Gier series. Maria van Buren, a high class prostitute, is found murdered aboard a boat in an Amsterdam canal. She is originally from Curacao in the Caribbean.
How Grijpstra, de Gier and their boss, the commissaris, solve this murder makes an interesting and enjoyable read. There is a trip to Curacao, witchcraft, some tedious legwork-- checking alibis and some serendipity conversations which lead to the ingenious murderer. Grijpstra and de Gier are quirky detectives, not above stopping work in the middle of the day and going to de Gier's apartment to sit and relax.
Some quotes: "Society is all balls. A lot of egotists thinking of themselves only. Insects locked in a bottle and all they can do is bite each other."
"He used to remind me of a tumbleweed."