A Cold Death in Amsterdam is a smart and engaging police procedural about a Dutch detective struggling to come to terms with her past.
‘Frozen canals and deserted streets make an athmospheric setting for Anja de Jager’s debut A Cold Death in Amsterdam. Detective Lotte Meerman has become a celebrity after solving the disappearance of a young girl 15 years earlier. The suspect is due in court, and Meerman is dreading the trial because of a possibly disastrous error of judgement on her part. She tries to distract herself with an unsolved murder, even though the investigating officer was her estranged father. Her painstaking police work is undermined by emotional turmoil in a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience.’ Joan Smith in The Sunday Times.
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