Sorted on book title (not in series order)

Netherlands

After the Silence

A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam's old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim's mouth.

In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But the couple who died in the fire had no children of their own. Did a little...Read more

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The Angel Maker

A literary page-turner about one man's macabre ambition to create life-and secure immortality

The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant children-...Read more

The Chinese Lake Murders

In the third installment of Robert Van Gulik's classic ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, magistrate, lawyer, and detective Judge Dee has his work cut out for him. Set in 666 A.D. , in the hidden city of Han-yuan, sixty miles from the imperial capital of...Read more

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The Chinese Maze Murders

A.D. 670

Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor's garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries.

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The Chinese Nail Murders

Judge Dee, the Sherlock Holmes of seventh century China, faces three dark and perplexing claims...The headless corpse of a woman is found lying on her bed, covered with blood, and brother accuses her husband of committing the crime...A distinguish boxer is poisoned in the bath-house,...Read more

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Close-Up

Close-Up Leon's partner died in his bath, and although the police report said she took her own life... she didn't. When he meets Margot, overweight, lacking in confidence and recently separated, he sees an opportunity...Read more

The Dinner

A darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal.

It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of...Read more

The Dinner Club

When Evert dies in his burning villa, everything points to suicide. The other members of the “dinner club,” a group of five women who meet regularly and whose husbands do business together, rally around to support Babette, his grieving widow. But events soon spiral out of control. Within...Read more

Double-Barrel

A Van der Valk Thriller - A disturbing, superb thriller from the pen of a master storyteller. A flurry of anonymous letters and two suicides leads Inspector Van der Valk to a mission in Drente where small-town hysteria may just lead to one of the century's most wanted criminals.Read more

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The Follower's Land

From best-selling Dutch author Tica Morgan comes the English-language debut of her bestselling thriller series, unveiling the dark underbelly of the small island towns of southern Netherlands.

Most criminal investigators would prefer the gritty streets of Amsterdam to the...Read more

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The Grown-Up

A mother vanishes. A daughter searches—down a dark and twisted trail in a bestselling edge-of-the-seat thriller about secrets, lies, and a family destroyed in one terrifying instant.

Seventeen-year-old Lies wakes up to find that her mother’s bed hasn’t been slept...Read more

The Harbour Master

AMSTERDAM NOIR IN THREE, ICE-COLD INSTALLMENTS ...

Maverick cop Henk van der Pol is thinking about retirement when he finds a woman's body in Amsterdam Harbour. His detective instincts take over, even though it's not his case. But his bigger challenge is deciding who his friends...Read more

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The Japanese Corpse

The fifth Amsterdam Cops mystery

A beautiful waitress at Amsterdam’s most elegant Japanese restaurant reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police search throughout the Netherlands and finally locate a corpse. But to find the killer, the commissaris...Read more

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The Mind-Murders

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Mr. Fortune is suspected of murdering his wife. Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes. But where is the body of Mrs. Fortune? Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the...Read more

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People With No Charisma

An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by her unconventional mother, an ex-Jehovah’s witness and former television star with an inferiority complex. Her father is the head of a psychiatric institution, whose only form of parenting is to offer his daughter the same life advice he...Read more

Shadow Sister

Lydia and Elisa, twin sisters, identical in appearance, different in every other way.

Lydia has her life in order and opinions on everything, from her husband's business to her sister's friends, to her fellow teachers. If only those around her could live up to her high...Read more