Janwillem Van De Wetering
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 Litt�rature Polici�re; and ten other books in the Amsterdam Cops series.
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 Litt�rature Polici�re; and ten other books in the Amsterdam Cops series. See less
Janwillem Van De Wetering's Featured Books
Janwillem Van De Wetering book reviews
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The Streetbird
great book
by gutenTag, Jan 17, 2013
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The Mind-Murders
A Gem Hidden Under the Dragon's Head
This author is stunningly intelligent and a fine novelist. His unsentimental compassion gives his books a much-needed antidote to the messy, hard-boiled genre of detective fiction.
I've bought and ... Read More
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The Streetbird
Zen Samurai
Van De Weterng spent two years at a Zen trainig monastery in Kyoto and then several years in his native Amesterdam as a policeman. His characters are often Zen Koans. He is an intelligent, ... Read More
