The Hollow-Eyed Angel

by Janwillem Van de Wetering

Paper Book, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

New York : Soho, c1996.

Description

The thirteenth Amsterdam Cops mystery The commissaris is about to retire from the Amsterdam police force when volunteer officer Johan Termeer approaches him for help. Johan fears his elderly uncle has been murdered in faraway New York, the corpse found decimated by animals in Central Park. The commissaris agrees to look into the matter since he's already heading to New York for a law enforcement convention, and brings Sergeant de Gier along with him.

User reviews

LibraryThing member mrtall

This is the first van de Wetering police procedural I've read, and I was generally favorably impressed. The story takes two of Amsterdam's finest to NYC to track down the fate of a Dutch national who's been found dead and partially consumed by wildlife in Central Park.

Van de Wetering's style is

quirky and entertaining, and his characters memorable. My only hesitation is that it's very light stuff.

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LibraryThing member iayork

Van de Wetering's strongest dose of Zen Buddhism yet.: Van de Wetering continues his search for the true meaning of being and nothingness. The commissaris and Sergeant de Gier travel to New York to investigate the death of an uncle of a member of the Amsterdam Police Reserve. Throughout the course

of their investigation, the Dutch detectives continue their own personal search for enlightenment. Van de Wetering has a talent for giving his readers more than a casual glimpse of the philosophy of Zen Buddhism, yet he manages to do so without preaching about it. As always, he makes us laugh along the way. This book did not feature as much interaction between Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier as some of Van de Wetering's previous efforts, as Gripstra did not travel to Manhattan with his colleagues. The focus in this story was the commissaris, and his attempts to solve both the case, and the meaning of life. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I am glad that the author has continued this unique mystery series after a long hiatus.

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LibraryThing member devenish

The commissaris goes to New York at the request of a volunteer policeman in Amsterdam. The uncle of this policeman has been found dead in Central Park. The body has been dismembered by animals and it is thus difficult to discover if it is a case of murder or merely natural death.
As with all other

books in this series this is a far from straight-forward crime story and one which you will have to work at.

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