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Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery #1)

Janwillem van de Wetering

Start date: November 15, 2020

Finish date: December 15, 2020

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Shelves: read-in-2018, mystery, series, police, drugs, backpack-europe, netherlands

Gripstra and de Gier are on the police force and are assigned to investigate a man found hanging in the Hindist Society who may not be a suicide. The crime is reported by a resident Van Meteren and much is amde of the fact that he is from new Guinea. The two officers definitely have some unorthodox police procedures including napping on the job and taste testing items to see if they are drugs. The whole investigation was rather slow and there is definitely some dated treatment of women. I did en ...more

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