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- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Could down-sizing her life mean up-sizing her dreams? Since her daughter grew up and left home, Sandy has found herself filling her house with things – impulse purchases that she just has to have but that quickly lose their...
- 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...
A Poisonous City (DCI Jac of Amsterdam Book 1)
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): circa 2000
The former head of Amsterdam’s Murder brigade is found dead. He was 81 years old, why not let nature take its course? The openly gay, uncompromising and highly neurotic DCI Jac Roggeveen and her squad are handed the investigation....
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
‘One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking – it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.’ This is the story of Ruth Cole....
- Location(s): Amsterdam, The Lake District
- Genre(s): Fiction
When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the up-market newspaper The Judge, persuades his old friend Clive...
Amsterdam: A brief life of the city
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940-43
Follow Rachel Klein as she faces double danger as a young Jewish woman and resistance worker in the Amsterdam of Anne Frank. On May 10, 1940, the Nazi bombers blast the night and shatter Rachel Klein’s sleep – along...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Brighton, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
An Amsterdam Affair follows Sam and her idealistic teenaged son, Matty. Phil, Sam’s husband, is unemployed because of a short-lived affair that cost him his job as a geologist. Sam finds solace in wild swimming and making art in...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Bloemendaal
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1960s
As usual, Van der Valk’s approach to the case is both unorthodox and intensely human. He immerses himself in the lives of his suspects, and in the small town atmosphere of the seaside resort where they live., and cracks...
- Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...
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