The Square of Revenge

author: Pieter Aspe

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.41

book published: 1995

rating: 3

read at: 2014/10/24

date added: 2014/10/24

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'The Square of Revenge' by Pieter Aspe was originally published in Flemish in 1995 and has been recently translated into English. It's no Millenium Trilogy, but it's not a bad procedural mystery and it's an interesting setting.



When a couple night shift cops stumble across a jeweler's store that's been broken into, they think it's a standard smash and grab. What they don't expect to find is that the thieves have liquified all the gold jewelry in acid. Surely this is a crime of revenge, not greed. A strange note with five words only adds to the mystery. Assistant Commissioner Pieter Van In is assigned the case. What he finds is a plot to ruin a wealthy family and some surprising twists and turns. I did kind of figure out the twists and turns, but it's still a good revenge crime.



There's a bit of objectification of women that I haven't seen in mystery novels in a while and it was a bit off-putting to me. Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's because the cops are men or maybe it's because the book is almost 20 years old and also from another culture, so I took that into account. I like the Van In character, although the love interest portion of the book was kind of cloying and annoying by the time the book was done. I liked the setting, and I'd read another book in this series.



I was given a review copy of this ebook by Open Road Integrated Media and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.





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