Description
Amsterdam 1980. A city in turmoil. As the police force is overwhelmed by the civil war between law enforcement and squatters, local policeman Piet Huizen is seconded from his hometown Alkmaar to this cauldron. It should be daunting, but he feels strangely liberated from the responsibilities of home and everyday work. Together with his three colleagues, he’s only there temporarily and can even laugh at his own provincial outlook. Until a student goes missing. Amsterdam now. Detective Lotte Meerman doesn’t want to hear about her father Piet Huizen’s past because his month in Amsterdam in 1980 led directly to her parent’s divorce. The less she knows, the better. Then two men die. Their deaths are not treated as suspicious but Lotte realises there’s something that links the dead men: they were both children of her father’s former team-mates. And the more she investigates the circumstances of their deaths, the more Lotte realises she could be next.
About the Author
Anja de Jager is a London-based native Dutch speaker who writes in English. She draws inspiration from cases that her father, a retired police detective, worked on in the Netherlands. Anja worked in the City for twenty years but is now a full-time writer. She is currently working on the next Lotte Meerman novel.
