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Author
Series
Pieter Vos volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Anneliese Vos, 16-year-old daughter of Amsterdam detective, Pieter Vos, disappeared 3 years ago in mysterious circumstances. Her distraught father's desperate search reveals nothing and he leaves the police force. One day, while Vos is wasting time at the Rijksmuseum staring at a doll's house that seems to be connected in some way to the case, Laura Bakker, a misfit trainee detective, visits him. She tells him that Katja Prins, daughter of an important...
Author
Series
Pieter Vos volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sinterklaas, a beaming, friendly saint with a white beard, was set to mark his arrival in Amsterdam with a parade so celebrated it would be watched live on television throughout the Netherlands. Today the crowds would run into three hundred thousand or more, and the police presence top four figures. The city centre was closed to all traffic as a golden barge bore Sinterklaas down the Amstel river, surrounded by a throng of private boats full of families...
Author
Language
English
Description
A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally take stock of what remains of their lives. But amongst the wintry streets and icy canals we see their relationship fracturing beneath the surface. And when memories re-emerge of a troubled time in their native Ireland things begin to fall apart. As their midwinter break comes to an end, we understand...
Author
Series
Lotte Meerman volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Having been shot in the shoulder in the line of duty, Dutch police detective Lotte Meerman returns to work after four months of painful recovery - yet not all her colleagues are happy to see her. But department politics take a backseat when Lotte is called to investigate a worker's fall from the roof on a building site in the centre of Amsterdam. Frank Stempel's tragic accident becomes suspicious when Tessa, his widow, discovers human bones in her...
Author
Series
A Lotte Meerman mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Amsterdam, this novel introduces Lotte Meerman, a cold case detective still recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. A tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved 10-year-old murder case in which her father was the lead detective. When she discovers irregularities surrounding the original investigation that make him a suspect, she decides to cover for him. She doesn't tell her boss about the family connection and jeopardises...
Author
Series
A Lotte Meerman mystery volume 2
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Detective Lotte Meerman is convinced the death of Frank Stempel, a painter and decorator, isn't an accident after she and his widow Tessa find a skeleton in a sports bag in his left luggage locker at Amsterdam Central train station. The remains date from the Second World War and Lotte's colleagues consider it of minor importance - until forensic tests show that amongst the bones is the arm bone of a crime boss who recently went missing.
8) Intimacies
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the...
Author
Series
Pieter Vos volume 3
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Kim and Mia Timmers were ten years old when they were accused of murdering the rest of their family and the lead singer of the world famous band, The Cupids. The evidence seemed irrefutable at the time, and the sisters, who have been in a Marken institution for ten years, are now due for release. Pieter Vos, DI in the Amsterdam police, is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear along with a nurse who was supposed to escort them to...
10) Sleep baby sleep
Author
Series
Pieter Vos volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Vivid characters, great sense of place and atmosphere showcasing what this author does best: taking his reader to a European city and letting them breathe in the vibe in his wonderful descriptions of, in this case, Amsterdam life. With wonderfully colourful scenes from the flower market to the cemetery, the reader is taken on a sinister journey of a serial killer is on the loose in the city. A killer who leaves the victims with a trademark tattoo...
Author
Series
A Lotte Meerman mystery volume 3
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Drinking outside a canalside bar on a perfect summer's evening, Lotte is witness to the fatal stabbing of Piotr Mazur, a Polish security guard working in one of the city's department stores. And as Lotte starts to investigate Mazur's death she keeps finding facts that potentially link him to the case of the dead tourists - but soon realises that the head of the team investigating their murders is trying to bury the information just as quickly as she...
Author
Series
A Lotte Meerman mystery volume 5
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When Lotte Meerman is faced with the choice of interviewing the latest victim in a string of assaults or talk to a man who claims he really isn't dead, she picks the interview. After all, the man cannot possibly be who he claims he is: Andre Nieuwkamp was murdered as a teenager over thirty years ago, and it had been a police success story nationwide when the skeletal remains found in the dunes outside Amsterdam had been identified, and the murderer...
Author
Series
A Lotte Meerman mystery volume 4
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Listening to the Right to Justice podcast as they dissect one of her old cases is made even more harrowing for Lotte as every episode makes fresh accusations of a bungled operation. As the podcast reveals hidden facts about the arrest of Ruud Klaver, the one thing Lotte is still convinced of is that it was Ruud who was guilty of the murder of a student ten years earlier. However, when Ruud Klaver then dies, only hours after the final podcast proving...
14) Tulip fever
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is a city in the grip of tulip mania, basking in the wealth it has generated. Sophia?s husband Cornelis, an ageing merchant, is among those grown rich from this exotic new flower. To celebrate, he commissions a talented young artist to paint him with his young bride. But as the portrait grows, so does the passion between Sophia and the painter; and as ambitions, desires and dreams breed an intricate deception, their reckless...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Children's
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As the Second World War approaches its end, the Netherlands are still under Nazi control and any acts of resistance are punishable by death. But when sixteen-year-old Michiel is asked to take care of a wounded British Spitfire pilot he doesn't think twice. He joins the secret struggle against the Nazis, working every day to end the occupation and protect those in danger from it, knowing all the time that spies are everywhere and one loose work could...
Author
Series
A Lotte Meerman mystery volume 6
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The latest smart and engaging police procedural featuring dark and damaged Dutch detective Lotte Meerman
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