Coming soon (late 2026)
My debut thriller
Milan de Winter is used to reading people before they read him.
He knows what they hide, what they protect and what they fear losing. But when one request pulls him closer to a truth that was never meant to surface, his carefully controlled life begins to shift.
The first novel in this series is currently in development.
Leo's professional books
Before fiction, I wrote and co-authored eight professional books on software quality, testing, DevOps and high-performing organizations.
It sounds far from noir, but the overlap is real. Pressure, risk and what people do when control begins to slip.
If you are curious about my earlier work, you will find it here.
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Leo van der Aalst
For years I wrote books about quality, systems and teams that must perform under pressure.
Now I bring that same discipline to fiction. As thriller author I write with clean pacing, sharp scenes and characters who cannot undo what they have done.
I am currently building a noir thriller series about a man who sells discretion and quietly handles problems for powerful people.
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Milan de Winter
Milan de Winter lives in the spaces people prefer to keep private.
By day, he works as a discreet private investigator for clients who want their problems handled quietly. By night, under another name, he moves through hotel suites, private dinners and expensive rooms where intimacy can be bought, but never made safe.
The Milan de Winter series is a dark, elegant psychological thriller series about power, shame and the price of seeing too much.
In Milan’s world, discretion is never neutral. Every room has a price. Every silence protects someone. And the closer he comes to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell whether proximity gives him leverage, or makes him easier to use.
© 2026 Leo van der Aalst