Gold And Silver Badges-Awards-Finalist- Honorable Mentions

 

Four-time finalist of the Belgian Hercule Poirot Prize for Best

Mystery Novel of the Year with the novels "Djinn," "The

Finger of God," "Return to Hiroshima," and "The Firehand

Files."

 

Winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for "Baudelaire's

Revenge," which also won the USA Best Book Award 2014 in

the category "mystery/suspense."

 

The collection of short stories "Dangerous Obsessions" was

Hailed as the "best short story collection of 2015" by the San Diego Book

Review.

 

"Heart Fever," the second collection of short stories, was a

finalist in the Silver Falchion 2018 Award.

 

The quality UK book site Murder, Mayhem & More chose

"Return to Hiroshima" as one of the ten best international

crime books of 2018.

 

The novel "Alejandro's Lie" was the Best Thriller Book

Awards winner in the category "Political Thriller 2021" on

BestThrillers.com.

 

The novel was a finalist in The American Writings

Awards 2023

 

The book won a silver medal in The Bookfest Awards 2023

 

"Alejandro's Lie" became the first runner-up in the "general fiction" Los Angeles Book Festival 2024 category.      

 

"The Shadow Of The Mole" has become a finalist in the Best  Thriller Awards 2022, Historical Fiction category, from Best‐Thrillers.com.

 

The Historical Fiction Company chose "The Shadow Of The Mole" as the winner in the "Historical Literary" category of the 2022 HFC Book Of The Year contest.

 

The book also won a silver medal in the Reader View "Reviewer's Choice Awards 2022-2023" competition in the

"Historical Fiction" category.

 

"The Shadow Of The Mole" is a finalist in the "Hemingway 20th-century wartime novels" competition of The Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA).

 

"Scars Of The Heart" received a New York Book 2024 Festival Honorable Mention in the category Anthologies/Compilations.

 

"Scars Of The Heart" received a Gold Book Award 2024 from Literary Titan

"Scars Of The Heart " is the winner of the Literary Global Book Awards 2024 in the category Short Stories Collections.

 

Fourth Award for "Alejandro's Lie"

"Alejandro's Lie" became the first runner-up in the "general fiction" category of the Los Angeles Book Festival. This second place award is further proof that this novel, which appeared in Flanders in 1990 as "De stenen wachter" and attempted to paint a portrait of the mechanisms that make a dictatorship possible, is still relevant today. Sadly, perhaps more so than ever. The novel won four awards last year.