Maarten Smeele

Isabel, thirty-ish and beyond happy, is approached by a secretive firm. The offer? To disappear and start all over again. She laughs it off. It's an absurd suggestion, a joke - right up until her life starts falling apart.

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.

A diverse group of animals faces the joys and challenges of living together in the woods in this collection of tales narrated by a wise and witty owl.