'. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' *Sunday Times* Having been shot in the shoulder in the line of duty, Dutch police detective Lotte Meerman returns to work after four months of painful recovery - yet not all her colleagues are happy to see her. But department politics take a backseat when Lotte is called to investigate a worker's fall from the roof on a building site in the centre of Amsterdam. Frank Stapel's tragic accident becomes suspicious when Tessa, his widow, discovers human bones in her husband's left-luggage locker at Amsterdam Central. To Lotte, this changes the course of her investigation from fatal accident to potential murder. When forensics discover the skeleton dates back to the Second World War, the rest of the team are convinced that Lotte is wasting everybody's time by insisting this somehow ties in with the Frank's death, but then it is discovered that some of the bones are less than a decade old . . . and although vindicated for pursuing the cold case, Lotte finds that the investigation takes a dark and sinister turn, linking an old war crime to events in the much more recent past. Praise for Anja de Jager ' An absorbing read with the smack of reality ' Daily Mail 'The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality' Sunday Express 'Impressive . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure' The Times 'Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she's made at work . . . Amsterdam is the other star here, beautiful and deadly' Cath StaincliffeReviewA harrowing but absorbing read― *Daily Mail* [Meerman's] 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 [Meerman's] 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― *The Sunday Times on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality― *Sunday Express on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* De Jager manages to circumvent the overfamiliar. The evocation of a bitterly cold Amsterdam is worthy of Nicholas Freeling's Van der Valk books De Jager manages to circumvent the overfamiliar. The evocation of a bitterly cold Amsterdam is worthy of Nicholas Freeling's Van der Valk books― *The Independent on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* Complete with a strong and respectable female protagonist, Anja de Jager presents a thrilling whodunit that is bound to ensure the admiration of any reader. Welcome to Amsterdam. Complete with a strong and respectable female protagonist, Anja de Jager presents a thrilling whodunit that is bound to ensure the admiration of any reader. Welcome to Amsterdam.― *W24*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. 

‘. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience’ Sunday Times Where do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your colleagues? Drinking outside a canal-side bar on a perfect summer’s evening, Lotte is witness to the fatal stabbing of Piotr Mazur, a Polish security guard working in one of the city’s department stores. As Lotte starts to investigate Mazur’s death, all the facts point to him being a small-time drug dealer, and his murder is treated as a minor complication in another team’s larger narcotics case. Yet Lotte remains unconvinced; having viewed the man’s ordered, unchaotic flat and spoken to his colleagues, she can’t help but believe he was being set up. And in the bar, moments before Piotr was killed, Lotte saw a woman pass him a photo of a child. Shebecomes convinced that his death wasn’t a revenge-killing over drugs at all, and has to now think carefully about what to do for the best, especially as key evidence in Mazur’s murder comes from someone she knows she cannot trust. Praise for Anja de Jager ‘An absorbing read with the smack of reality‘ Daily Mail ‘The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality’ Sunday Express ‘Impressive . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure’ The Times ‘Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she’s made at work . . . Amsterdam is the other star here, beautiful and deadly’ Cath Staincliffe     ReviewAn impressive debut . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure― *The Times on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* Amsterdam is beautifully captured, and Meerman is an engaging if conflicted character who is becoming more interesting with each book in this series.― *Daily Mail* . . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience― *Sunday Times on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality― *Sunday Express on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she's made at work . . . Amsterdam in the vicious grip of a bitter winter is the other star here, beautiful and deadly― Cath StaincliffeAbout 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. 

'A novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience' Sunday Times __________________Keeping it in the family...After her painful divorce four years ago, Lotte Meerman has kept well away from Arjen, her ex-husband, and his new wife Nadia. So when they both visit her at central Amsterdam's police station to report Nadia's father missing, Lotte is shocked - but hides it well.Then two days later a dog walker reports the discovery of a body near the Orange Locks, built to keep the sea out of Amsterdam, and the missing man is identified as Nadia's father. Lotte wants to stay away from the investigation but his widow, Margreet, keeps searching her out as she has no idea it was her daughter who was pivotal in the marriage break-up. She wrongly identifies Lotte as a friend and tells her that Patrick had been a great husband and father, and a successful businessman. But when Lotte digs into Patrick's past, she discovers instead a failing company and a man with a history of making unwanted sexual advances to his female employees.Margreet is unaware of any of this. And the more Lotte investigates the dead man's past, the more she finds to suggest that her ex-husband is somehow involved in his death...______________________Praise for Anja de Jager:'Succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality'Sunday Express'Impressive' The Times

Guilty until proven innocent . . . It’s hard for anyone to have their work scrutinised in public. For Amsterdam-based detective Lotte Meerman, listening to the Right to Justice podcast as they dissect one of her old cases is made even more harrowing as every episode makes fresh accusations of a bungled operation. As the podcast reveals hidden facts about the arrest of Ruud Klaver, the one thing Lotte is still convinced of is that it was Ruud who was guilty of the murder of a student near Rembrandt Square ten years earlier. However, when Ruud Klaver then dies in suspicious circumstances, only hours after the final podcast proving his innocence is broadcast, Lotte has to accept that maybe she was wrong. With the dead man’s family passionately against her inclusion in the investigation into his death, the only way for Lotte to discover who killed him is by finding out where she went wrong all those years ago – if indeed she did go wrong. As Lotte digs deeper and involves colleagues from her past, it starts to look like the murder in Rembrandt Square was part of an even bigger deception . . . Praise for Anja de Jager ‘. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience’ Sunday Times ‘The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality’ Sunday Express ‘An impressive debut . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure’ The Times ‘Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she’s made at work . . . Amsterdam in the vicious grip of a bitter winter is the other star here, beautiful and deadly’ Cath Staincliffe **Review An impressive debut . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure― *The Times on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality― *Sunday Express on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she's made at work . . . Amsterdam in the vicious grip of a bitter winter is the other star here, beautiful and deadly― Cath Staincliffe . . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience― *Sunday Times on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* Amsterdam is beautifully captured, and Meerman is an engaging if conflicted character who is becoming more interesting with each book in this series― *Daily Mail* 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.