Nicolas Freeling: Some Day Tomorrow (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
'The most underestimated writer in England' - Anita Brookner
Sergeant Hout from the Serious Crimes Bureau and this is Detective Dycksma. We're making a house to house enquiry on account of a girl missing. I dare say you heard, she lived close by. I'm sorry to say we've found her, dead and the findings point to homicide. D'you know her at all?

Zandvoort on the Dutch coast. Carla Zomerlust, a young university student, is found murdered on the local dunes. The signs point to sexual molestation, a probable rape. Bert, retired now and ailing after a recent prostate operation, falls under police suspicion. He knew the girl, befriended her even, but did he kill her?

In his latest novel Freeling, creator of the ever-popular Van der Valk and Castang detective series, reveals himself as a novelist at the height of his powers. Never one to fit into easy categories, Freeling turns his perceptive imagination inwards to examine the effects wrought by ageing on the male psyche and male desire. This is the instantly recognizable voice that revolutionized crime writing and after forty years of exploring human passions asks, 'Do we know?'

Nicolas Freeling is the author of 35 highly-acclaimed crime novels including Because of the Cats, Love in Amsterdam, The King of the Rainy Country and, most recently, One More River. He lives in Grandfontaine, France.

'Freeling is the only British novelist of consequence to have tackled modern Europe. I have no doubt this expatriate Englishman joins Graham Greene and George V. Higgins as the great crime writers of the mid and late years of our century' -- Grey Gowrie, Daily Telegraph

'Here is an author who is as much concerned with the impulses and motives of the human heart as he is with the details of detection. The combination of elegant style and the continually interesting narrative give his novels their special flavour' -- P. D. James

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Nicolas Freeling: Some Day Tomorrow. Arcadia Euro Crime, ISBN: 1900850354 (October, 2000), 204 p., £11.99.

Nicolas Freeling: Some Day Tomorrow (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Hubertus van Bijl's family has a long and respected history in the Dutch flower trade. Now retired, Bert busies himself with a bit of puttering around the house and long walks in the Zandvoort dunes near the coast of Holland. His wife, Willy, is loyal and dutiful - always saying "bless you" when he sneezes - though Bert accepts that passion left the marriage long ago. But ripples of unease soon appear in the quietude: The local authorities are conducting a door-to-door investigation into the murder of Carla Zomerlust, a young student whose body is found along a dune path.

Through a diary-like narrative, the reader learns that Bert is not the docile botanist he -- and everyone who knows him -- considers himself to be. In a novel that plumbs the depths of mad- ness, Nicolas Freeling creates his most compelling and disturbing work to date in this chilling examination of crime from the inside out.

Nicolas Freeling: Some Day Tomorrow. St. Martin's Minotaur, ISBN: 0312262302 (July, 2000), 224 p., $22.95.