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Zusatztext When Hewson hits his stride it feels like you're being treated to a masterclass in crime writing. If you have a penchant for Euro-crime procedurals! The House of Dolls is an essential new series Informationen zum Autor Former Sunday Times journalist David Hewson is well known for his crime-thriller fiction set in European cities. He is the author of the highly acclaimed The Killing novels set in Denmark, the Detective Nic Costa series set in Italy and the Pieter Vos series in Amsterdam. The Killing trilogy is based on the BAFTA award-winning Danish TV series created by Søren Sveistrup and produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. While he lives in Kent, Hewson's ability to capture the sense of place and atmosphere in his fiction comes from spending considerable research time in the cities in which the books are set: Copenhagen, Rome, Venice and Amsterdam. Klappentext Sinterklaas! a beaming! friendly saint with a white beard! was set to mark his arrival in Amsterdam with a parade so celebrated it would be watched live on television throughout the Netherlands. Today the crowds would run into three hundred thousand or more! and the police presence would top four figures. The city centre was closed to all traffic as a golden barge bore Sinterklaas down the Amstel river! surrounded by a throng of private boats full of families trying to get close. Amsterdam is bursting at the seams with children trying to get a glimpse of their hero! and families enjoying the occasion. The police are out in force! struggling to manage the crowds on one of the busiest days of the year. Brigadier Pieter Vos is on duty with his young assistant! Laura Bakker! when the first grenade hits. As Sinterklaas prepares to address the crowds! a terrorist outrage grips the city. In the chaos! a young girl wearing a pink jacket is kidnapped. But the abducted child isn't the daughter of an Amsterdam aristocrat as the terrorists first thought. Instead! her mother is an impoverished Georgian prostitute! friendless and trapped in the web of vice that is Amsterdam's Red Light District. As the security forces and the police clash over the ensuing investigation! the perpetrators' horrifying demands become clear. Vos! trapped in a turf war with state intelligence! tries to unravel a conspiracy that reaches from the brothels of the city to the hierarchy of the security services. And at its heart lies an eight-year-old girl! snatched from a loving mother then ferried from one criminal lair to the next! her life in the balance as Vos and Bakker struggle to uncover the shocking truth behind her abduction. What is the life of one immigrant child worth in the greater political game emerging around them? She knew they would come for her. How long can she wait? The Wrong Girl is the second title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson's atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops. Zusammenfassung By the bestselling author of The Killing ! The Wrong Girl is the second novel in David Hewson's gripping Detective Pieter Vos series set in Amsterdam. Sinterklaas! a beaming! friendly saint with a white beard! was set to mark his arrival in Amsterdam with a parade so celebrated it would be watched live on television throughout the Netherlands. Today the crowds would run into three hundred thousand or more! and the police presence would top four figures. The city centre was closed to all traffic as a golden barge bore Sinterklaas down the Amstel river! surrounded by a throng of private boats full of families trying to get close. Amsterdam is bursting at the seams with children trying to get a glimpse of their hero and families enjoying the occasion. The police are out in force! struggling to manage the crowds on one of the busiest days of the year. Brigadier...
