Coming soon (late 2026)

Leo van der Aalst – Dutch Thriller Author

I am working on The Price of Proximity, the first novel in the Milan de Winter psychological noir thriller series.

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.

Professional Books by Leo van der Aalst

Before fiction, I wrote and co-authored professional books on software quality, testing, DevOps and high-performing organizations.

That work shaped the way I write today: structured, precise and focused on pressure, risk and consequence.

If you are curious about my earlier publications, you will find them here.

The Story Behind the Author

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 a thriller author, I write with clean pacing, sharp scenes and characters who cannot undo what they have done.

I am currently building a psychological noir thriller series about Milan de Winter, a man who sells discretion and quietly handles problems for powerful people.

The Milan de Winter Thriller Series

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 psychological noir 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.