When a man confesses to the double murder of his wife and her lover it seems an open and shut case; but as one part after another of the man's story doesn't check out, van der Valk realizes he is dealing with something far more complicated.
Van der Valk and Kroon investigate when a local prostitute reports that a man is dying. He's living in rooms above a bar and the police surgeon says he has no hope of recovering. While he can't be certain, he agrees with the police who feel that he may have been poisoned. As the police soon learn, the man and a partner may have been drug dealers but it's a very rare book that gets Van der Valk's interest. When a fingerprint check reveals that the dying man was supposed to have died in a car crash 20 years before, the police aren't sure just who they're dealing with.
When a world-famous Dutch violinist returns to Amsterdam for a rare performance, he receives a series of death threats. Someone even smashes his Stradivarius. Van der Valk can't fathom why anyone would want to hurt the virtuoso--but that doesn't mean the threat isn't real.
When the daughter of a controversial right-wing journalist disappears, Van der Valk has trouble keeping his personal feelings for the man private, despite warnings from his boss. The ransom demand leaves the detective perplexed and the father struggling with his past.
A young English aristocrat turns up dead in an Amsterdam canal, but his mother shows little interest in finding the killer. Van der Valk and Kroon begin to piece together the man's history, which leads them on a tour of the city's transvestite clubs and bars.
A deadly car crash has Van der Valk flummoxed--and fearful. Why was the victim carrying a gun and a photo of a local stonemason? No one shares his concern, however, including the mason, who dismisses the offer of police protection. But Van der Valk can't walk away just yet.
A romantic midnight swim leaves a man unconscious and his wife missing, presumed drowned. Van der Valk suspects that more than amorous intentions were at play that night, and he sets out to prove it.
When a dead man turns up on the deck of a canal barge, everyone is ready to dismiss him as a nonentity. The commissaries disagrees. Before Van der Valk can find out what happened to the man, though, he first must discover his identity.
Arlette's intuition proves truer than her husband's after a young woman is threatened in the park. Van der Valk tries to atone for his mistake by hounding the prominent Amsterdam businessman, but his personal feelings might be clouding his judgment.
While working on a case, a private detective is stabbed to death in a seedy apartment. Who was he watching for two weeks in the building opposite? And how did it lead to his death?
A rich, middle-aged American flies into Amsterdam to meet her young lover, only to learn that he has disappeared. While she worries about the safety of the missing man, Van der Valk fears that she is in danger herself.
An explosion almost kills a worker at a tractor factory, and a poor immigrant barber is bludgeoned to death in a luxury apartment that he shouldn't have been able to afford. Van der Valk looks for a link between the two apparently unrelated crimes.
Van der Valk searches for a teenage girl abducted on her way to a clandestine rendezvous with a married man. The man is ready to help in any way he can, but the commissaries finds her hotel-tycoon brother more willing to cooperate with the kidnappers than the police.
Van der Valk and Arlette are subjected to threats on their lives. Who is the hidden enemy?
An international scandal over charges of corruption in high places. The Chief Inspector disappears, but has he sold out?
A small-time thief with connections to an important family suddenly comes into money, and Van der Valk must find out why without embarrassing too many people.
A young German is murdered in his bed. The apartment is littered with clues. For Van der Valk there is a clue too many.
An old friend of the detective becomes a victim in a series of seemingly unimportant petty thefts : leading to murder and mistaken identities.
Arlette spots a bargain : inadvertently landing her husband in a heap of trouble with a crime syndicate.
An artist dies in mysterious circumstances, leading Van der Valk into a world of intrigue and forgery, but curiosity can be dangerous.
A psychic helps in an eight-year-old murder inquiry after experiencing a startling vision.
A death occurs at a famous Amsterdam hotel and Van der Valk suspects a distinguished man given to regularly switching identities.
The detective is approached by a beautiful woman with a strange story and events soon take an unexpected turn.
The detective investigates crimes committed by bored latch-key adolescents looking for kicks.
A series of strange accidents leads the detective into a dangerous investigation.
The Dutch detective struggles to find a pattern in a serial killer's murders.
Someone at headquarters leaks vital information, leading to the mishandling of three cases - and Van der Valk's son Wim is connected to all of them.
The Dutch detective investigates the shooting of a government minister who was apparently about to flee the country using a false ID.
The maverick Dutch detective probes the murder of an alternative comedian with a cult following, but finds his investigation hampered at every turn.
A former judge is shot dead and Van der Valk is brought in to solve the case. A suspect is apprehended, but confesses that someone else got to the the woman first. Moreover, what is the connection between the judge's killing and a drug case Wim is investigating?
The Dutch detective leads the hunt for a kidnapped businessman and his teenage son, but the case soon takes a chilling turn.
The maverick detective investigates when a dispute between politicians and radical environmentalists over a proposed new sea barrier takes a murderous turn.
