Bob Van Laerhoven
 has written more than thirty books in Holland and Belgium.  Bob has 
become known for his colorful, kaleidoscopic novels in which the fate of
 the individual is closely related to broad social transformations.  He won the Hercule Poirot Prize in 2007 for his novel Baudelaire’s Revenge, now available in English for the first time. Visit his web site at www.bobvanlaerhoven.be.