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The Light of Amsterdam

The Light of Amsterdam
  • Author(s): David Park
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Stories intersect as we follow Alan, the weekend guardian for his teenage monosyllabic son and Karen, has reluctantly come on a hen weekend for her daughter: Marion is having weekend with her husband who worries about their relationship. Set...

The Night Ferry

The Night Ferry
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, The English Channel
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Alisha Barba’s dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school...

Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever
  • Author(s): Deborah Moggach
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1630s

Set in 1630s Amsterdam, it begins with a typical Renaissance love triangle: a wealthy, elderly merchant, Cornelis Sandvoort, his beautiful but frustrated young wife Sophia and the painter who enters their life, Jan van Loos. Commissioned to paint the...

Craving

Craving
  • Author(s): Esther Gerritsen
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The relationship between Coco and her mother is uneasy to say the least. When they run into each other by chance, Elisabeth casually tells Coco that she is terminally ill. As Coco moves in with her mother and takes...

Murder in Amsterdam

Murder in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Ian Buruma
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a cold November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man, Mohammed Bouyeri, the son of Moroccan immigrants, shot and killed the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh,...

The Gilded Fan

The Gilded Fan
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Nagasaki, Plymouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1640s

How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love? It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to...

The Dinner

The Dinner
  • Author(s): Herman Koch
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A summer’s evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse – the banality of work, the...

A Cold Case in Amsterdam Central

A Cold Case in Amsterdam Central
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary, early 2000s

Detective Lotte Meerman is convinced the death of Frank Stapel, 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...

A Death in Rembrandt Square

A Death in Rembrandt Square
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s hard for anyone to have their work scrutinised in public. For Amsterdam-based detective Lotte Meerman, listening to the Right to Justice podcast as they dissect one of her old cases is made even more harrowing as every episode...

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, Amsterdam, Aragon, Paris, Switzerland, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

The secrets of the past are treacherous…and irresistible. A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery… 1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the...

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