Read “Death of a Hawker,” a Soho Crime novel by Janwillem van de Wetering. It’s set in Amsterdam. I like mysteries set in other countries, like those by Henning Mankell, Per Wahloo, Dan Fesperman, and Philip Kerr’s “Berlin Noir” series. But I didn’t like this one. Slow, ponderous, uninteresting characters, and totally anti-climactic.
