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 *