Patrick van der Eem, who befriended Joran van der Slot and then secretly recorded him confessing to being with Natalee Holloway when she died, has signed a book contract with US literary agent David Vigliano.

The rights to Van der Eem’s story on the disappearance of the US teenager on Aruba in 2005 will be auctioned off, the Telegraaf reports on Monday.
At the weekend Dutch lawyer Bram Moszkowic told the media he has been approached by Holloway’s mother to look into the possibility of bringing a civil case against Van der Sloot.