The Hollow-Eyed Angel

A Grijpstra & De Gier Mystery The thirteenth novel in the famed Amsterdam cop series finds Grijpstra is about to be retired from the Amsterdam police force when a policeman comes to him for help. A corpse has been found in New York's Central Park and although the local police don't agree, he fears his elderly uncle has been murdered. As Grijpstra will be attending a police convention in New York he agrees to make enquiries and a lot more comes to light than at first seemed possible.

Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008) was born and raised in Rotterdam, but lived most recently in Surry, Maine. He served as a member of the Amsterdam Special Constabulary and was once a Zen Buddhist monk. He is renowned for his detective fiction, including Outsider in Amsterdam; The Corpse on the Dike; The Japanese Corpse; The Maine Massacre, which garnered him the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; and ten other books in the Amsterdam Cops series.