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The Devil's Playground
 
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The Devil's Playground (Paperback)
by Stav Sherez (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (2 Feb 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141014067
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141014067
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 298,046 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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When the body of a tramp, Jake Colby, is found in a secluded Amsterdam park, Dutch police detective Ronald Van Hijn believes that this is the ninth victim of the serial killer stalking the city. Yet, all previous victims were young, female and beautiful. What could have made the killer change his MO?

On the corpse Van Hijn finds contact details for Jon Reed, an Englishman who befriended Jake in London shortly before the murder. Van Hijn summons Jon to Amsterdam to identify the body and so sets him on his own journey of discovery.

Was Jake really a tramp? What revelation about his identity led him to a life on the streets? And did his fate lie not in the hands of a serial killer but in the horror of the Holocaust death camps some 60 years before?

The Devil's Playground is a thought-provoking debut crime thriller from a stunning new young talent. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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‘A gifted writer … deserves to be the thriller of the summer’

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling, intelligent thriller, 25 Mar 2006
This is one of the most impressive thrillers I've read for a long while. Detective Van Hijn is an interesting and original character, and his hunt for a possible serial killer in Amsterdam is well told and very scary in places. However it is the scenes set in the Holocaust that really take you to the dark side and have you horrified one minute and shedding tears the next. Some of the images in this novel stayed with me long after I'd finished reading. I admire authors who manage to combine a well-paced thriller plot with such thought-provoking subject matter - and I'd certainly recommend this novel.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling, thought-provoking thriller, 21 Jun 2004
This review is from: The Devil's Playground (Hardcover)