{"product_id":"the-rattlerat-isbn-9781569471036","title":"The Rattle-Rat","description":"Douwe Scherjoen was a well-to-do livestock dealer from the remote Dutch province of Friesland. Then his corpse was found, half-charred by flames, floating in a dory in Amsterdam's harbor. No one knows why he was in the nation's capital, far from the bucolic pleasures of his native village of Dingjum. But since Grijpstra is Friesian by birth and can understand the dialect, he and his partner de Gier are dispatched to find the killer—or at least the motive for the crime. And they discover that while no one, not even his wife, liked the victim, the culprit is the unlikeliest suspect of all.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for the Grijpstra and de Gier mysteries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Good thrillers are necessarily about good versus evil, but hardly any thrillers try to explore the philosophical nature of either one . . . A couple of attending virtues make Janwillem van de Wetering's new novel more than a routine case of venality and violence. One is a world-weary humor . . . the other is an exploration of a good guy's ethic and a bad guy's ethos.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Sit back and revel in the pleasures of van de Wetering’s original take on everything from police corruption to the US military’s role in international oil piracy.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Entertaining.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"For lovers of the Amsterdam Cops, this is an especially exotic treat; for newcomers it will be a sparkling and more than usually offbeat introduction.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"One of the more fetching outings for van de Wetering's offbeat Amsterdam cops—offering a leisurely, whimsical mixture of resourceful action, psychological confrontation, and philosophical repartee . . . An engaging excursion, dark-edged yet oddly lighthearted.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003eJanwillem 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 \u003ci\u003eOutsider in Amsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse on the Dike\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Corpse\u003c\/i\u003e, and eleven other books in the Grijpstra and de Gier series.","brand":"Soho Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304952582373,"sku":"NP9781569471036","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781569471036.jpg?v=1767741162","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-rattlerat-isbn-9781569471036","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}