Sanne Terlouw

(Utrecht, NL, 1959) is a Dutch specialist, writer, and publicist. As a child she inspired her father, the D66 Party politician Jan Terlouw, to write novels. Oorlogswinter (Winter of War), for example, came about as a result of her questions about WWII. For three decades father and daughter had wanted to co-write a detective novel, a plan that came to fruition in 2005: the result is the hit series about the investigative duo Reders and Reders. Meanwhile, Sanne Terlouw had already published books under the pen name Ike Smitswater, such as Het graf in de tuin en andere verhalen (The Grave in the Garden and Other Stories, 1992) and Het raadsel van de familie Liezekies (The Mystery of the Liezekies Family, 1993). In 2000, she won the Libelle Novel Prize for Het strijkkwartet (The String Quartet). She has more than 60 titles to her name, both non-fiction (mainly focused on health and nutrition) and fiction. Father and daughter's latest novel In huis met een seriemordenaar (At Home with a Serial Killer) will be published in early 2015, based on the family's experiences with the infamous Van Z in the late 1960s.