“Stan Lauryssens. A new name in crime fiction. He’s Belgian, like Hercule Poirot himself.” —L is for Lauryssens. A man who knows what he’s writing about. His thrillers are dead on target. Stan Lauryssens alternates intimacy with the most absurd dialogue. He is not averse to gruesome horror, he doesn’t mind bloody violence and he truly excels in dirty talk. Yet his amazing crime thrillers have a wonderful, almost philosophical serenity. —DE MORGEN —A five star ***** thriller!—MAXIM

—Stan Lauryssens writes so well that you can almost smell the dust blowing through the window.—THE BULLETIN —A masterly grand finale in which a mad psychopath goes into dialogue with himself. Page after page after page you hold your breath and the surprise ending really comes as a relief. Stan Lauryssens at his very best and so much better than lots of reputed and distinguished foreign crime writers.—DE MORGEN —Blood, filth, and still: a good book. The writing is so lively, simply because Stan Lauryssens is such a gifted storyteller. His characters are no dummies but real life people with a melancholy disposition who hide their doubt and frailness behind a wall of violence.—DE STANDAARD —A Russian mafioski is shot in broad daylight. A serial rapist is stalking his victims. A girl named Fatima is found hanging on a lamppost. Five adults and a baby are savagely killed in a drugs house. If the reader can get over the idea that his head is stuck in a toilet bowl, he will be rewarded with a book that is thrilling, funny, sharp, packed with action and truly hard-boiled.—VOLKSKRANT —As good as the best Sjöwall & Wahlöö.—PagiA “Dear Stan, Good luck with the new book. All best, Ed McBAIN.”