Love in Amsterdam: Van der Valk Book 1 - Murder Room (Paperback)

A slim, intense story of sexual obsession. It changed my ideas about the possibilities of crime fiction - Ann Cleeves, author of the bestselling VERA novels

Freeling is the only British novelist of consequence to have tackled modern Europe - DAILY TELEGRAPH

There can be no doubt Mr Freeling is a genuinely masterful novelist - SUNDAY TIMES

Elegant style and continually interesting narrative which give his novels their special flavour

He was the most thoroughly European of British crime writers - GUARDIAN

Freeling's Inspector Van der Valk is less rugged than Rebus, less parsonical than Dalgliesh, more Morse than Frost, and more Maigret than any of them. Marvellous

Freeling is a joy to read - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Freeling writes like no one else - LA TIMES

If you've never heard of Nicolas Freeling you're in for a treat. Read one and you'll want to get all the Freelings - COSMOPOLITAN

No one writing in the field can equal Freeling's depth and variety - NEW YORK NEWSDAY

The air of civilised urbanity that runs through Freeling's books is to most detective novels what Henry James is to Zane Grey - NEW YORK TIMES