The quirky, hard-drinking cops of Bruges are on a strange case that seems to point towards the Knights Templar in Pieter Aspe's enjoyable crime romp The Square of Revenge.
This is the first of Aspe's books to be translated into English, and he is apparently already a big hit in his native Belgium. I can see him having a successful run here, between descriptions of life in a beautiful medieval city and an unusual crime story (that begins with crooks melting all the gold at a jewelry store and ends with kidnappers proposing a bonfire of priceless paintings).
The story wraps up on a somewhat serious note, involving deep family secrets, but the colorfully-drawn characters really carry the day. I will look for more work from Aspe.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana.
This is the first of Aspe's books to be translated into English, and he is apparently already a big hit in his native Belgium. I can see him having a successful run here, between descriptions of life in a beautiful medieval city and an unusual crime story (that begins with crooks melting all the gold at a jewelry store and ends with kidnappers proposing a bonfire of priceless paintings).
The story wraps up on a somewhat serious note, involving deep family secrets, but the colorfully-drawn characters really carry the day. I will look for more work from Aspe.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana.
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