Bob Van Laerhoven

A fulltime Belgian/Flemish author, Laerhoven published more than 35 books in Holland and Belgium. Some of his literary work is published in French, English, Italian, and Russian. Three times finalist of the Hercule Poirot Prize for best mystery novel of the year with the novels Djinn, The Finger of God, and Return to Hiroshima. Winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for Baudelaire's Revenge, which also won the USA Best Book Award 2014 in the category "mystery/suspense." His collection of short...See more

A fulltime Belgian/Flemish author, Laerhoven published more than 35 books in Holland and Belgium. Some of his literary work is published in French, English, Italian, and Russian. Three times finalist of the Hercule Poirot Prize for best mystery novel of the year with the novels Djinn, The Finger of God, and Return to Hiroshima. Winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for Baudelaire's Revenge, which also won the USA Best Book Award 2014 in the category "mystery/suspense." His collection of short stories Dangerous Obsessions, first published by The Anaphora Literary Press in 2015, was hailed as "best short story collection of 2015" by the San Diego Book Review. Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish translations of Dangerous Obsessions will appear in 2018. See less