Women's magazines editor Ron van Veen (44) made a fatal fall from his company HQ, covered in very recent bruises from a clobbering. He was a nasty boss and horrible husband, serially adulterous. yet his wife Elise has an alibi and kept loving him. Baantjer concentrates on his many flirts and enemies, questioning apparent alibis and Elise's ma's suspicious lack of effort to produce one.
—KGF Vissers