Hard Rain

Just a Corpse at Twilight (A Grijpstra & De Gier Mystery)

Retired Amsterdam cop Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic phone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier -

now living on an island near Jamestown, Maine- who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend.

He can't remember, he was drunk. He is being blackmailed, he may be arrested. Will his old partner

please fly over at once? Could de Gier possibly be a murderer? Urged on by their former superior officer,

the commissaris, Grijpstra travels to Maine to rescue his partner

and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier's.

The Maine Massacre

The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends the commissaris to the secluded town of

Jameson, Maine. De Gier goes along to see the USA. But there has been a sinister series of deaths in the area

and the two find themselves neck-deep in a murder investigation involving shady real estate deals,

with a townful of suspects, and the icy breath of a cold-blooded killer stalking their every move.

The Mind-Murders (Grijpstra-De Grier Series/Janwillem Van De Wetering)

Mr. Fortune is suspected of murdering his wife. Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads

to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes. But where is the body

of Mrs. Fortune? Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the Amsterdam cops

finally arrive at the bone-chilling truth in a blaze of brilliance, intuition, and intrigue.

Outsider in Amsterdam

Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune

in a quiet Amsterdam street. Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam

police force are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide. First in The Amsterdam Cops series,

originally published in 1975.

The Perfidious Parrot

Grijpstra and de Gier, formerly of the Amsterdam "Murder Brigade," attempt to hide their

ill-begotten stash of millions. Policemen on active duty Ketchup and Karate conspire with illegal merchants,

a father & son millionaire team, to force the detectives to deal with sexual & musical terminal

extravaganzas on several Caribbean islands. Meanwhile piracy leads to murder but a retired

Dutch police chief'sactive nihilism and Key West's sergeant Ramona's erotic cruelty

combine to erase a problem and to create an excitably acceptable non-solution.

The Streetbird

Sergeant de Gier sees a vulture at the scene of a murder in Amsterdam's red light district. The victim was a despicable pimp, now only a police matter to be disposed of with typical Dutch tidiness. However, once Grijpstra, de Gier and the canny commissaris get involved, their search leads to a denouement infinitely more shocking than the crime itself.

Tumbleweed

Maria van Buren, a beautiful, high-class prostitute, is found dead with a knife in her back in her houseboat on an Amsterdam canal. Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder. Her tony clients all have sound alibis. Before the murderer is caught the detectives and their commissaris will investigate allegations of black magic, travel to Curacao, and pursue their clues to a chilly island off the coast of Holland.

Distant Danger : The 1988 Mystery Writers of America Anthology.

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