I'm partial to books set in Amsterdam (or any other Dutch town) written by foreigners. It's fun to see the places and people I know through the eyes of a stranger.

David Mirte has a few jobs to do in Amsterdam. One is to sit on a panel of writers. Another is to find the daughter of a former fence who did some time rather than rat him out. Then Delia Delacourt shows up. She needs his help to prevent that a dying and wealthy American causes some embarrassment by have a painting stolen from the Rijksmuseum. And there's this woman that is trying to kill him. That's got to stop too, for obvious reasons.

This was a fun, fast-paced and action packed narrative. And the descriptions of the Dutch are pretty accurate. Except, we don't say moo-say-um for museum. It's more like mue-say-um.

I read an ARC through Netgalley.