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A View Across the Rooftops

A View Across the Rooftops
  • Author(s): Suzanne Kelman
  • 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...

After the Silence

After the Silence
  • Author(s): Jake Woodhouse
  • 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...

Dirty Pictures

Dirty Pictures
  • Author(s): Patricia Ketola
  • 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...

The Diary of a Young Girl

The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Author(s): Anne Frank
  • 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,...

The Girl with the Red Hair

The Girl with the Red Hair
  • Author(s): Buzzy Jackson
  • 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

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
  • Author(s): Dominic Smith
  • 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

When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew
  • Author(s): Hendrika de Vries
  • 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...

The Miniaturist

The Miniaturist
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • 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...

A Cold Death in Amsterdam

A Cold Death in Amsterdam
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • 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...

A Death at the Hotel Mondrian

A Death at the Hotel Mondrian
  • Author(s): Anja de Jager
  • 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...

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