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Journal Entry 1 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Thursday, November 10, 2005
 The ninth 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.)
(Photo: author Janwillem van de Wetering.)
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Journal Entry 2 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, November 16, 2005
One of the more enjoyable van de Wetering's I've read in a while, The Streetbird (named for a kind of vulture employed on the streets of Surinam to keep the roads clear of garbage and offal) is set in Amsterdam, and involves the murder of a pimp and Obia practicioner.
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The Streetbird
