Dreverhaven is dead. The city's most feared bailiff, the curse of the poor, the agent of law without compassion--discovered with a knife through his heart. A self-taught lawyer who just passed his exams was the last person to see Dreverhaven alive. Now, the police want to know why he visited the old man, and the young barrister is ready to tell the story of a lifetime.

A question of silence: When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why. Broken mirrors: Set in an Amsterdam brothel, two prostitutes rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile one of their customers kidnaps a woman. The last island: Five men and two women, marooned survivors of an air crash, discover that they may be the only survivors...