Journal Entry 1 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, April 06, 2004

The fourth novel in van de Wetering's excellent "Amsterdam Cops" series, featuring the unhappily married Adjutant Detective Grijpstra and his vain, cat-loving assistant, Detective Sergeant Rinus de Gier. These books combine van de Wetering's Buddhism, the hippie consciousness and sexual politics of 1970s Amsterdam and the more traditional elements of police procedurals to make for an interesting, quirky read -- I'm definitely committed to reading the whole series.

(For compulsives like myself, who prefer to read mysteries in the order in which they were written, here's the whole "Amsterdam Cops" series: Outsider in Amsterdam; Tumbleweed; The Corpse on the Dike; Death of a Hawker; The Japanese Corpse; The Blond Baboon; The Maine Massacre; The Mind-Murders; The Streetbird; The Rattle-Rat; Hard Rain; The Sergeant's Cat & Other Stories; Just a Corpse; The Hollow-Eyed Angel; and The Perfidious Parrot.)

Note: I just finished this book, and found it the least engaging of the series so far. Don't make it the first of this series that you read! If you're a fan of the series, it's still worth reading, as it contains new and interesting details about the lives of the main characters (Grijpstra, de Gier and their boss, the Commisaris). As an introduction to these books, it would be the pits ... 

Journal Entry 2 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, May 05, 2004

I passed this book on to my Mom, who was looking for something light to read. I'm not sure she'll journal it, but perhaps down the line it will end up with someone who will! 

Journal Entry 3 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Well, the book travelled to Mexico with my Mom and returned, unread. Now looking for a home ...