Marc Klein Essink

A rich Frisian farmer has been murdered in Amsterdam and police duo Grijpstra & De Gier are sent to investigate. Adjutant Grijpstra has problems at home again and is happy to leave for Friesland to investigate the murder. Sgt. De Gier finds the Frisian Hylke much more interesting than the murder case. In Leeuwarden there is a real Chinese war and a brutal robbery at the cattle market. Suddenly there is that friendly rattling, asthmatic rat who provides an unexpected solution.

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.

A young man and woman are touring around Asia with rucksacks on their backs. They meet a stranger, who turns out to be more dangerous than he seems.

A successful vascular surgeon is suddenly confronted with a blood phobia, making it impossible for him to exercise his job in the hospital. He moves from the capital to the countryside to work as the GP of a village where he only knows his aunt. His predecessor was well liked, so his new community is less than welcoming. The empathic capabilities of the doctor leaves much to be desired, making it even harder for him to win his place in the close-knit community.

Peter Strohm est détective privé aux méthodes radicales. Son travail commence là où finit celui de la police ; il récupère les cas délicats qui réclament une certaine envergure ou les situations explosives pouvant déboucher sur des crises internationales.

« Dans le secret des bibliothèques, derrière les reliures sévères et précieuses, se cachent bien des mystères. Les plus doux de ces mystères nous viennent des grands écrivains eux-mêmes. Loin, bien loin de leurs œuvres officiellement reconnues, nombre d'auteurs célèbres, sous leur nom ou un pseudonyme, se divertissent à écrire des récits où les jeux de l'amour et de la beauté s'épanouirent. Ces récits, la Série rose est allée les découvrir pour vous, public sensible et averti. Nous allons pour vous tourner les pages de ces livres secrets dont les années n'ont pas effacé le parfum. La Série rose s'ouvre à vous... »

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