Mark,
Re your question below:
> Does anyone have an opinion on this author?
What
> are his books like?
He's a former part-time cop in Amsterdam. The cop stuff is
pretty authentic-sounding. He's also a Buddhist, and his
books tend to have a Zen philosophical underpinning.
> Are they hardboiled?
Well, I suppose they are if you agree with the premise that a
police procedural automatically falls, by definition, into
the hard-boiled tradition. They are certainly police
procedurals. Of course, not everyone agrees with that
premise.
On the other hand, van de Wetering is neither as tough, nor
as colloquial, as, say, Gerald Petievtch, Joseph Wambaugh, or
Dan Mahoney in this country, or John Wainwright in the
UK.
A good one to start on, just to see if he floats your boat,
is the short story collection *The Amsterdam Cops*. If you
don't like the shorts, you won't like the novels. If you do,
you'll probably like his book-length stuff, as well.
JIM DOHERTY
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