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Meet Van Der Valk, Amsterdam’s best detective, in Nicolas Freeling’s classic novel
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…
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Nicolas Freeling (1927–2003) was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels. His novel The King of the Rainy Country received the 1967 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. He also won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers’ Association, and France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
Sam Devereaux is a third generation actor. Most of his childhood was spent tucked into the wings of West End theaters watching his dad perform or glued to the television exploits of his famous Australian grandfather. In addition to steady stage work, Sam has worked in voice-overs throughout his career. Starting off with dry corporate fare and progressing to the focused lunacy of his role as the title character in the hit adult cartoon Future Duck, Sam has developed into a flexible and highly focused voice-over actor. Audiobooks seemed the next logical step and Sam gets enormous pleasure from the intimacy of reading a story into a microphone. Whether it’s a weighty historical text or the sort of fantastical children’s book he reads every night to his kids, Sam just loves to tell a really good story.