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Baantjer DeKok and the somber nude

A beautiful, free-spirited young woman has gone missing, and those closest to her fear for her life. Inspector DeKok is soon called upon to find out her whereabouts. It quickly becomes clear that this Nanette may have harbored a dark side, one that embraced blackmail, emotional cruelty, and a wicked selfishness. The more DeKok learns of the beguiling Nanette, the more he feels that he is on the trail of a dead woman. DeKok’s suspicions are confirmed with a phone call: the dismembered body of a...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

E-book
Baantjer DeKok and the dead lovers

Inspector DeKok and his partner Vledder are ordered to protect the eccentric Manfred Nettelhorst’s art treasures, exhibited during a special showing in Amsterdam. But before the exhibition has come to a close, the two detectives are called away to a nearby apartment building to investigate the murder of a man handcuffed to a radiator, shot execution style. That same night, an exquisite silver ewer is stolen from the exhibition. Following the trail, DeKok stumbles across an invisible line between...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

E-book
Baantjer DeKok and the mask of death

Women are checking in to Slotervaart Hospital, but not checking out. According to hospital files, they were never even there. Inspectors DeKok and Vledder are called upon to investigate this alarming disappearing act. Eerily, the people closest to these vanishing women all comment on a change in their faces: they have become listless, fatigued, and seemingly wear a ‘mask of death’. All indications point to foul play, but the bodies have yet to turn up. DeKok is stumped as to how these women are...

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

E-book
Baantjer DeKok and the dead harlequin

Inspector DeKok is faced with a grotesque double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel. He finds the murder victims looking like macabre wooden harlequins. Inspector DeKok must unravel clues from two unexpected characters: a six-year-old girl who has trouble sleeping, and a respected accountant who seeks DeKok’s advice on committing the perfect crime. But when DeKok meets with the murderer, he tries everything possible to prevent the man from giving himself up to the police… Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

E-book
Baantjer DeKok and murder by melody

Inspector DeKok finds himself in the midst of outwardly disparate motives and personalities surrounding the deaths of two reformed junkies and their landlady, a former prostitute. However, there is one connection in the madness, because music threads its way among and around the list of suspects and victims. DeKok discovers that the trail leading to this melodious murderer is as long as a symphonic masterpiece. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

E-book
Patricia Snel The expat

Dutch expat Julia de Rijck uses husband Paul's telescope to spy on Dave across the pool in their luxury Singapore condominium. Despite their mutual attraction there is something about the man that makes Julia uneasy. When Dave's maid, Angelica, dies in suspicious circumstances, Julia gets pulled into a world of secrets and discovers a less visible Singapore of exploitation and prostitution. The Expat is a gripping story of greed, love, infidelity and crime in Singapore. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Fictie

Engels | 223 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2015

E-book
Saskia Noort Stromboli

a novel

Hundreds of thousands of readers enjoy the joined column by writers' couple Sara and Karel on a daily basis, where they report openly about their life as a family. But behind this facade of their bohemian lifestyle a daily life filled with envy, resentment and even violence is festering. After another nocturnal escalation it's game over: Sara decides to leave Karel. Soon after Sara becomes isolated - nobody wants anything to do with her any longer. In order to get her life back on track she checks...

Fictie

Engels | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2021

E-book
Frank de Zanger A ring

a novella

Novel 'A RING' is a captivating and romantic story about Yara and her young daughter Sasha. Yara is a young Russian woman, who works in St. Petersburg as a call girl to make ends meet. A foreign architect pops up in her life and makes it even more complicated than it already is. She receives a gift that turns her life upside down. A ring plays a major role in the novel - a ring as symbol for friendship, happiness, confidence, and personal initiative. The setting of novella 'A RING' is partly in New...

Fictie

Engels | 105 pagina's (ePub2, 0,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Tournesol, Soest | 2012

E-book
Linda Jansma Haunted

From the Dutch award-winning author, Linda Jansma, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heart stopping in the blink of an eye. Haunted Sixteen years ago, something terrible happened to Janine- so terrible she never told anyone. Now she is a successful business woman and owner of a famous dance club in Amsterdam. With a wonderful husband and lovely daughter Janine seems to have it all, until in one life-shattering moment the love of her life is murdered in cold blood. Completely devastated...

Fictie

Engels | 350 pagina's (ePub2) | Going Dutch, an imprint of De Crime Compagnie, Laren nh | 2018

E-book
Peter Römer DeKok and the lost child

Rechercheur DeKok wordt geconfronteerd met twee moordzaken. Hij vermoedt dat het gaat om een oude vete in de onderwereld.

Fictie

Engels | ePub2, 5,7 MB | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2023

E-book
Eve Bunting A sudden silence

Gekweld door schuldgevoelens besluit een jongen de automobilist die zijn broer doodreed op te sporen.

Fictie | Non-fictie

Engels | 127 pagina's | Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen | 2003

Gedrukt boek
Bas Steman Morgan

my love; a novel

'Deeply moving! Many people will be touched by this story.' Adriaan van Dis, international bestselling author. A small town in Wales in 2006. Betrys, now in her late eighties, still longs for Morgan, the love of her life who perished during Operation Market Garden, as the Second World War was winding to a close. A Dutch writer inadvertently gets caught up in this story from long ago, in a way he could have never imagined. Based on a fascinating true story, Morgan, My Love is a surprising, romantic...

Fictie

Engels | 283 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2021

E-book
Simon Hammelburg Broken on the inside

the war never ended

WWII did not end in 1945 when the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust were released from the concentration camps or came out of their hiding places. Often no longer welcome in their former homes they were forced to leave behind, stripped of their belongings and dignity, they had to move on regardless. Their children suffered too, as there was always fear, anxiety and sadness about countless relatives that were killed during this unrivalled genocide. Simon Hammelburg compiled the accounts of...

Fictie

Engels | 274 pagina's (PDF, 0,5 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018

E-book
Catherine Steadman De verdwijning

Actrice Mia Eliot is vanuit Londen naar LA gekomen om auditie te doen – haar kans om definitief door te breken. Ze voelt zich een buitenbeentje in de stad vol beroemde filmsterren en meedogenloze competitie, tot ze Emily ontmoet. Ook zij is actrice, maar ze is vriendelijk en oprecht en Mia kan het onmiddellijk goed met haar vinden. Maar dan verdwijnt Emily plotseling en Mia blijkt de laatste persoon te zijn die haar heeft gezien. Er duikt een vrouw op die beweert dat ze Emily is, maar Mia weet meteen...

Fictie

Engels | 291 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Xander, Haarlem | 2021

E-book
Louis Couperus The hidden force

Fictie

Engels | 347 pagina's | Pushkin Press, London | 2012

Gedrukt boek
Auguste van der Molenschot Tears from Brabant

a novel

This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a land that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come by, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (of women but also of the Catholics), the pill and its effects, secularization,...

Fictie

Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018

E-book
Paul Bowles Tijdstippen

Fictie

Engels | Nederlands | 111 pagina's | Stichting De Roos, Utrecht | 2018

Gedrukt boek
Multatuli Max Havelaar, or, the coffee auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

Een Nederlandse bestuursambtenaar in Indië komt in conflict met een inlandse vorst.

Fictie

Engels | 357 pagina's | New York Review Books, New York | 2019

Gedrukt boek
Xueqin Cao The story of the stone

a Chinese novel

Engels | 2 pagina's | Penguin, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1982

Gedrukt boek
Xueqin Cao The story of the stone

a Chinese novel

Engels | 2 pagina's | Penguin, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1977

Gedrukt boek