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Il Quadrato Della Vendetta (1995)

by Pieter Aspe(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8864110224 (ISBN13: 9788864110226)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Fazi Editore

series

Van In

review 1: De boeken van Pieter Aspe had ik al vaak op de planken in de bibliotheek zien staan, ik had gelezen, dat hij in België een veelgelezen schrijver is, maar tot nu toe had ik nog niets van hem gelezen. Nu heb ik toch zijn eerste boek geprobeerd en, zowaar, ik zou hier verslaafd aan kunnen worden! Commissaris Van In (een naam, die af en toe het lezen lastig maakt, vooral door het aanhangsel 'In') is een figuur, die ik wel in een serie wil volgen. Het verhaal zet je voortdurend op een verkeerd been: telkens wanneer je denkt, dat je doorziet wat er aan de hand is, blijken de zaken toch weer anders te liggen. Prettig. Ik ga het tweede deel ook maar 'even' lezen.
review 2: This is Pieter Aspe’s English-language debut novel, we are introduced to Commissioner Pieter V... morean In, of the Bruges Special Investigations Department. (There have apparently been several entries in the series.) What will turn out to be a case of greater magnitude than any other in his 20-year career begins inauspiciously enough, when Sgt. Guido Versavel comes upon what appears to be a theft in a jewelry store in an expensive shopping district in Bruges. (And he had just been thinking that there were “only three thousand, nine hundred seconds to go” before his shift was up.)On closer inspection, a baffling scenario presents itself: The alarm has been disabled, the safe has been broken into and all of its contents taken, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, “acid” to the uninitiated. Only when the store’s owner is discovered to be the son of Ludovic Degroof, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the region is there a hint that there is more involved. Van In wonders: “Where do you begin when a case appears to have no suspects and no motive?”DI Van In is ultimately put in charge of the case, which takes on different proportions when other members of the DeGroof family are contacted and threatened. He is more than ably assisted by the beauteous Deputy Public Prosecutor Hannelore Martens, described by him thusly: “Even in jeans and a white blouse, she was capable of making Miss Belgium look like a spruced-up scarecrow.” Not a conventional “whodunit” (as the reader is given that information about one-third into the book), this more a question of “why,” and the answer to that is totally unexpected. Political implications play a huge role in the way the investigation is conducted. Ultimately it appears that the seeds of these events were sown many years before. Written with welcome doses of humor, this is a thoroughly entertaining novel, and is highly recommended. less

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