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- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
University professor Josef Held has never recovered from the loss of his beloved wife – and has no intention of ever letting anyone new into his quiet, safe world. It is a world where the clock ticks steadily in his mathematics...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
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...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When New York art dealer Elizabeth Martel’s mother falls ill, she returns to her hometown in the Midwest. After her mother’s death she is seriously short of funds, and a friend suggests she take a job as art adviser...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2
In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a ‘secret annexe’, fearing discovery. All that time,...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Haarlem
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1940
1940, Amsterdam. You’re nineteen years old. The war has stolen your future and your country is under siege. The people you love are no longer safe. Will you stand aside as the menace of Nazi evil tightens its grip...
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1630s - 2000s
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry...
When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): WW2 onwards
Born in the Netherlands at a time when girls are to be housewives and mothers and nothing else, Hendrika de Vries is a “daddy’s girl” until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1680s
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from...
- Location(s): Alkmaar, Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set in Amsterdam, the novel introduces Lotte Meerman, a Cold Case detective still recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. A tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved ten-year-old murder case in which her father was the lead...
- Location(s): Amsterdam
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Lotte Meerman is faced with the choice of interviewing the latest victim in a string of assaults or talking to a man who claims he really isn’t dead, she picks the interview. After all, the man cannot possibly...