Pieter Aspe, trans. from the Dutch by Brian Doyle. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-60598-446-9
Offbeat characters and an unusual plot lift Belgian author Aspe’s first Pieter Van In novel to be translated into English. A relaxing Sunday for the detective inspector ends with a call from his boss, Chief Commissionaire De Kee, directing him to a...
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Pieter Aspe, trans. from the Dutch by Brian Doyle. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60598-487-2
What brainy, bodacious Bruges deputy prosecutor Hannelore Martens finds irresistible about irascible, alcoholic, and insolvent Asst. Commissioner Pieter Van In, the hero of Aspe’s long-running Belgian series, remains a mystery by the end of this...
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Pieter Aspe, trans. from the Dutch by Brian Doyle. Open Road, $16.99 trade paper (265p) ISBN 978-1-5040-3230-8
In Aspe’s busy fourth outing for Commissioner Pieter Van In (after 2015’s From Bruges with Love), the cranky, nonconformist Flemish police detective gets almost more than he can handle when the death of a young woman, a possible suicide whose body...
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Pieter Aspe, trans. from the Dutch by Brian Doyle. Open Road, $15.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4976-7889-7
The skeleton unearthed by young Tine Vermast outside her family’s Bruges farmhouse plunges Asst. Commissioner Pieter Van In into what proves to be a decades-old cesspool of prostitution, political corruption, and worse in Belgian author Aspe’s...
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