Love in Amsterdam

In this classic mystery, a Dutch police detective investigates a woman's murder with assistance from the man accused of killing her.A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman.It looks like a straightforward case-but police inspector Van der Valk is not convinced. Despite all the evidence-and the fact that Martin originally denied he was at the apartment-he believes Martin is not guilty of murder. Instead of charging him, Van der Valk takes him on a tour: a tour of the investigation, a tour of Martin's own past and a tour into the darkly obsessive world of Elsa . . . NOW A LIMITED SERIES ON MASTERPIECE PBSPraise for Nicolas Freeling and Van der Valk"e;Freeling's Inspector Van der Valk is less rugged than Rebus, less parsonical than Dalgliesh, more Morse than Frost, and more Maigret than any of them. Marvelous."e; -Anita Brookner"e;[Freeling] has given the detective story new dimensions much as John Le Carre has done for the spy novel."e; -Newsweek

In this classic mystery, a Dutch police detective investigates a woman's murder with assistance from the man accused of killing her.A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman.It looks like a straightforward case-but police inspector Van der Valk is not convinced. Despite all the evidence-and the fact that Martin originally denied he was at the apartment-he believes Martin is not guilty of murder. Instead of charging him, Van der Valk takes him on a tour: a tour of the investigation, a tour of Martin's own past and a tour into the darkly obsessive world of Elsa . . . NOW A LIMITED SERIES ON MASTERPIECE PBSPraise for Nicolas Freeling and Van der Valk"e;Freeling's Inspector Van der Valk is less rugged than Rebus, less parsonical than Dalgliesh, more Morse than Frost, and more Maigret than any of them. Marvelous."e; -Anita Brookner"e;[Freeling] has given the detective story new dimensions much as John Le Carre has done for the spy novel."e; -Newsweek