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The Corpse with the Garnet Face

The Corpse with the Garnet Face
  • Author(s): Cathy Ace
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The seventh book in the Cait Morgan series finds the eccentric Welsh criminologist–sleuth accompanying her husband Bud to Amsterdam to try to unravel a puzzling situation. Bud is as surprised to discover he has a long-lost uncle as he...

The Cut Out Girl

The Cut Out Girl
  • Author(s): Bart van Es
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Little Lien wasn’t taken from her Jewish parents – she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only...

The Expat Affair

The Expat Affair
  • Author(s): Kimberly Belle
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rayna Dumont is getting a fresh start in Amsterdam. Following a nasty divorce, she takes a jet-setting new job and embraces the single life. All seems to be going well until she wakes up in the bed of Xander...

The Fall

The Fall
  • Author(s): Albert Camus
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy...

The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars
  • Author(s): John Green
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid...

The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop

The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop
  • Author(s): Annabel French
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One fresh start. One unexpected encounter. Can love bridge the gap? When Rosie leaves behind her ordinary life in England to open a flower shop on Amsterdam’s water, she expects nothing less than a fairytale. Max, her handsome but...

The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Gran Canaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 17th Century

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their love and their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in The Joubert...

The Harbour Master

The Harbour Master
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henk van der Pol is a 30-year-term policeman, a few months off retirement. When he finds a woman’s body in Amsterdam Harbour, his detective instincts take over, even though it’s not his jurisdiction. Warned off investigating the case, Henk soon realises...

The Heart’s Invisible Furies

The Heart’s Invisible Furies
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): Ireland, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s to the present day

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man’s life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery...

The House of Fortune

The House of Fortune
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1705

The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton’s million copy bestselling The Miniaturist. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s...

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