Joris Lutz

A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.

Tika, the daughter of TiTa Tovenaar, can stop everything around her just by clapping her hands. But she longs to learn so much more and to meet other people. She feels quite lonely in the sky castle where she lives, and her father, TiTaTovenaar, is mostly busy turning strawberries into camels. Luckily, there are the Grobbebollen and the wizard’s apprentice Kwark. Through them, Tika ends up in the Grobbedal and gets caught up in an exciting adventure, where she meets the Grobbedalers as well as the wicked Grobelia and Grobbema…

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.