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Rembrandt’s Promise

Rembrandt’s Promise
  • Author(s): Barbara Leahy
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

Hanging beside the door is a painting of a wedding feast. ­ The light is centred on the bride; the guests are banished to the shade. ­ That is how it is when he looks at her: all others...

Secrets Lie In Wait

Secrets Lie In Wait
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lost, found, stolen, dead… In a den of enemies, there’s nowhere to hide Debonair jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon has always relied on his wits to extricate himself from tricky situations. But when he’s kidnapped and framed for murder...

Shadows the Sizes of Cities, A Novel

Shadows the Sizes of Cities, A Novel
  • Author(s): Gregory W Beaubien
  • Location(s): Morocco, Amsterdam, Chicago, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1994

While traveling with friends in Europe and Morocco, the young American reporter Will Clark is drawn into killing a drug dealer. Pursued by other gang members and the police, his bond with his companions broken and his sense of...

Singles At Sea

Singles At Sea
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Norway
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

Book 4 in the Singles Series On a sunny afternoon at the end of July The Viking Queen sets sail in all her splendour from the London Cruise Centre at Tilbury, down the River Thames towards the sea at...

Sleep Baby Sleep

Sleep Baby Sleep
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years-old. She works in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market where her father has a stall. Brimming with personality, she’s always been popular with the customers. But then she goes missing, only to be found...

The Afterparty

The Afterparty
  • Author(s): Ruth Kelly
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She was your best friend. Now she’s missing. And everyone suspects you. People drift apart. You and Georgie were inseparable once; she knew you better than anyone. But that was then. Now, out of the blue, Georgie’s back. She’s...

The Amsterdam Affair

The Amsterdam Affair
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new start, a chance encounter, a Christmas to remember. Will Iris’s new year be happy ever after? When Iris Greene’s boyfriend surprises her with a romantic dinner at their favourite restaurant, she’s expecting a proposal, not a move...

The Amsterdam Chronicles: Def-Con City Part 1

The Amsterdam Chronicles: Def-Con City Part 1
  • Author(s): Brian Christopher
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

New York homicide detective Harvey Wall was more than pleased when his captain suggested he go on a six month exchange program with the Dutch police in Amsterdam. The benefits were obvious; firstly, he was out of sight of...

The Chosen Man

The Chosen Man
  • Author(s): J G Harlond
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Book 1 in The Chosen Man Trilogy Spring 1635, a storm and pirate raid interrupt wily rogue and Genoese merchant Ludovico da Portovenere’s voyage from Constantinople to Amsterdam, disrupting his plans and entangling others in a papal conspiracy that...

The City of Tears

The City of Tears
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): France, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th century

Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse’s The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown. June 1572:...

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