Piet Hoffman is one of the best characters ever created, I was with him the whole way. What a story! I wouldn't normally read a book about drug dealing, but this is only a small part of it. I could not put this book down, I read until the early hours of the morning, wanting and needing to know ho...
This was a tough story to finish. I listened to it on audio so some blame can be laid with the narrator's portrayal of Detective Superintendent Grimms and so many of the character voices as gravelly and old, which was annoying. I thought the POVs could have been confined to Grimms and Piet Huff...
Een jaar geleden las ik al een boek van het schrijversduo Anders Roslund en Börge Hellström. Drie seconden maakte veel indruk, omdat het goed geschreven en ontzettend spannend was. Vaderwraak is de debuutroman van dit duo.Tijdens een gevangenistransport ontsnapt een kindermoordenaar, Bernt Lund. ...
Piet Hoffmann yawned as he zigzagged through the commuters who were moving too slowly, still sleepy. He had gotten out of bed every hour through the night as their temperatures rose. The first time was just after midnight when he had opened all the windows in both boys' rooms, folded the blankets...
He’d been nine years old and forced the sharp edges into the soft wood. It was lying on the edge of the white cloth, her tooth. Ana had played with it for a while, pulled at it, it was loose, one of her upper front teeth. His fist had hit her cheek, mouth, and jaw. She left it on the kitchen tabl...
IT DIDN’T WORK. THE words just swam on the page, thoughts that wouldn’t focus. It was just like it had been when he first came here, when he was new, and after two weeks of kicking the walls and iron bars he’d realized that it was simply a matter of putting up with it, that he h...