Boomerang

A blue van ploughs into a group of schoolchildren at Dampoort in Ghent and speeds away. Several children are critically injured, and the city is shaken by a crime that immediately triggers an intensive manhunt. As the trail begins to lead beyond Belgium, Europol investigator George Bracke is pulled away from a conference in Stockholm and sent to Switzerland as the liaison between the Ghent and Zurich police. At the same time, Carl Vingerhoets is quietly preparing a reckoning of his own. For months he has been watching plumber Ward Ceustermans, a man whose very name fills him with rage. What began as an elaborate private revenge plan suddenly becomes dangerously entangled with the police investigation when Ceustermans's blue Ford van attracts attention in the hunt for the hit-and-run driver. Two seemingly separate stories begin to move towards each other: the desperate search for the man responsible for a devastating tragedy and a carefully prepared vendetta rooted in the past. George Bracke soon finds himself in an investigation in which appearances deceive, old grievances refuse to disappear and every action threatens to set another in motion.Because the past has a habit of coming back.Like a boomerang.Boomerang is Book 8 in the George Bracke thriller series by Belgian author and journalist Stefaan Van Laere. His books have been published in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Italian. Previous English-language George Bracke thrillers are Botero, Tango Mortale, Cold Fire, Kismet, Heavy Water, The Malt Mystery and And Then Nothing More.