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GIVEAWAY: a Dutch goodie bag plus copy of Rituals of the Dead by Jennifer S Alderson!
18th November 2018
WIN!! Take time out for yourself this holiday season and de-stress with this lovely Dutch-themed giveaway!
Featuring Rituals of the Dead by Jennifer S. Alderson, the latest in an exciting series of mystery thrillers set around the globe, a dual-timeline thriller is set in the Netherlands and Papua New Guinea.
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Rijksmuseum 2019 calendar; ‘Dutch Girl’ duck from the Amsterdam Duck Store; Anti-stress globe; a copy of Rituals of the Dead
In this novel, amateur sleuth and art history student Zelda Richardson is working at an anthropology museum in Amsterdam. When a missing explorer’s journal is found inside an artifact’s crate, she gets pulled into a world of shady anthropologists, missionaries, headhunters and smugglers – where the only certainty is that sins of the past are never fully erased. Join Zelda as she grapples with the explorer’s mysterious disappearance fifty years earlier, and a present-day murderer who will do everything to prevent her from uncovering the truth.
“Everything I like in a mystery: Compelling characters, international settings, a mystery steeped in culture and history.”
Rituals of the Dead is Book 3 in the Adventures of Zelda Richardson mystery series, but can also be read as a standalone. You can read our review here. The giveaway also includes several fun gifts to help you unwind.
HOW TO ENTER:
When you think of the Netherlands, what springs to mind? Leave your choice in the comments (1) (2) (3) (4)
MUSEUMS (1)
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Rijksmuseum.com
TULIPS (2)
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Holland.com
WINDMILLS (3)
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AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
CHEESE (4)
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AroundAmsterdam.com
Leave your comment by midnight, Saturday 1st December (UK time) and the first name out of the hat will be sent the goodie bag by the author. The winning copy of Rituals of the Dead is a signed copy with a dedication of the winner’s choice plus a Rijksmuseum 2019 calendar; ‘Dutch Girl’ duck from the Amsterdam Duck Store; Anti-stress globe.
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Huge thanks to TripFiction for hosting and all those who entered for their interest – I am overwhelmed by the number of responses! And congratulations to the winner!! I’ll mail your prize package Monday morning. Happy reading, everyone!
Ellie L’s name came out of the hat today. Thank you to everyone who entered!!!!
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Museums – we went to the Van Gogh Museum on my only visit to the Netherlands
It was actually canals, but museums would be next on my list
TULIPS (2)
TULIPS (2)
3 – windmills So pretty!
Definitely 3) windmills!
the tulips
2. Tulips
2 -Tulips but would love to see the windmills
2. Tulips
WINDMILLS (3) is my first thought.
Tulips!
Tulips
2
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Tulips
2 Tulips
2) without a doubt!
2) Tulips
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2. Tulips.
(2) Tulips and the amazing displays
2, Tulips (starts singing song!)
CHEESE (4)
Tulips – the variation in colour is amazing!
Tulips
Windmills (3)! My mom’s family is from there so it makes me think of that, as well.
All 4!!! 🙂
2. Tulips
Windmills for me
Tulips
Tulips
Cheese!
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Number 3 definitely
2) Tulips (and windmills and wooden shoes!)
Tulips!
2) Tulips
It’s 2)Tulips for me
my first thought is . . . 2 Tulips (but all of them too)
All of them really but the most prominent would be tulips! I love them in every color!! Such a happy sign that summer is on its way!!
3. Windmills, they are so beautiful
Tulips, which are wonderful flowers!
Windmills. I think of the
Beautiful windmills.
All of them! But mainly 3) the windmills as my Auntie brought me a toy one back from her holidays when I was 5 and I thought it was great!
4. Cheese
My favourite cheese in the world is Dutch komijne kaas which I am told translates as cumin cheese.
I visited and sunbathed on land reclaimed from the sea by the Ziederzee Dam in 1970. It was June when we toured and saw the wood carvings and flower stalls. The windmills and Delft blue on white china objects had pretty scenes on them and I those charms on a bracelet with a windmill along with charms from the other 7 countries we toured. I was the youngest and Gram was the oldest and we chaperoned each other.
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Windmills come to mind first, and then tulips. A former neighbor of mine was Dutch. She had a doll made up with a Dutch costume and wooden shoes and gave it to me. I loved it. I still have it. I was small child then.
#2 tulips come to mind, then #3 windmills
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TULIPS TULIPS TULIPS! They are my favorite flower, and I impatiently await their yearly bloom time. I have had my husband plant around 500 tulip bulbs around my house and yard over the last 10 years. Can never have ENOUGH tulips in bloom!
2 Tulips come to mind.
Both tulips and windmills remind me of the Netherlands.
Tulips – because I’m a Canadian and every year, the Dutch send Canada the most beautiful tulips as a thankful because during the war their Princess was in Canada for safety. She gave birth to her child on one of our hospitals, and so that her child could be born in Dutch soil, the Canadian Government declared her delivery room Dutch soil. So when I think of the the Netherlands, I think of tulips and what they mean to me.
Wow – how wonderful to see so many readers interested in mysteries set in the Netherlands! I’m really enjoying reading all these great ‘fill-in’ answers, as well. I just wanted to thank TripFiction for hosting this giveaway and you all for entering. Good luck!!
Tulips
2. Tulips
museums
4
Religious freedom – read all about Calvin and the wars in my history degree and that’s what springs to mind is the defeat of catholic spain as their overlords! x
2.Tulips but second would be windmills.
1. Museums.
The Rijksmuseum – The building is beautiful as well as the works of art contained within.
1. Museums
2. Tulips
Tulips
2 tulips!!
(5) Poffertjes (6) Stroopwaffel I’m a foodie, if you can’t tell!
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Yum – those are both delicious choices!
2) Tulips
2) Tulips first
tulips first but all really
2. Tulips
2. Tulips
MUSEUMS (1) as they have some fantastic art work
Museums
3 WINDMILLS (and then of course mice and clogs!!)
2. Tulips
Tulips
(1) Dikes
(2) Tulips
(3) Windmills
(4) Cheese
(2) Tulips
1. Rijksmuseum.com
1. Museums. We love visiting Amsterdam and spending time in all the fantastic museums.
Beautiful spring displays of tulips.
Cheese ha ha
1- Tulips
2- Windmills
3- Cheese (Alkmaar which we have visited)
4- Museums (esp Anne Franks which we have also visited)
2 – Tulips.
All four!
All four of them. When I lived in Germany as a child we were close to the Dutch border so we often popped over the border for a visit.
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Congratulations, Ellie Lane! Your book and goodies are in the mail (mailed from Amsterdam on Monday 3 December). I truly hope you enjoy your prizes. Dutch Christmas is this Wednesday so the post office is a bit chaotic. They ask you to give them 10 days to deliver it. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
Ellie Lane – your name came out of the hat! We have made contact via e mail
Tulips
All four – been there a couple of times and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Hope to go again some day soon. Particularly like the tulips theme.
2. Tulips!
2. Tulips and the amazing displays
3 windmills
4. Cheese – and not just Edam
Tulips quickly followed by cheese.
Oops I should have read till the end, my mistake. Forget that other comment
Number 1.
Oops I should have read till the end, my mistake. Number 1.
Someone I know of who lives there 🙂 Nice lady
Healey Museum in Vreeland
Tulips on National Tulip Day in Dam Square, Amsterdam.
Sleep in a windmill at Molen Hunsingo B&B
Maasdam cheese!
Jennifer followed everywhere!
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Oh my, these are all wonderful choices! I am embarrassed to say I haven’t yet visited the Healey Museum in Vreeland (your namesake, perhaps?). Now on my to-do list. Thank you so much for entering the giveaway and following!!
Gorgeous colourful fields of tulips!
Canals, flat lands and dykes, tulips, legal cannabis
1. Healey Museum in Vreeland
2. Tulips at Dam Square in Amsterdam on National Tulip Day!!
3. Sleep in the windmill at Molen Hunsingo B&B
4. Maasdam cheese!
Marijuana and smoking in coffee houses.. not that I have ever done so or am advocating! And the red light district.. sorry, one track mind..
Museums, bikes, cheese & coffee shops,
3 – Windmills
Tulips,bikes,cheese.
Well actually the very first thing that springs to mind is André Rieu. But a close second is cheese.
Windmills!
2) Tulips, my favourite flowers! Looks like an interesting read, fingers crossed x
3. Windmills closely followed oddly enough by wooden clogs
4 x
When I think of the Netherlands I always picture waving fields of gorgeous tulips.
1. MUSEUMS Will be great to visit.