Death on the Canal (Lotte Meerman) - Hardcover

De Jager, Anja

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472126254 ISBN 13: 9781472126252

Publisher: Constable, 2018

Synopsis

Where do your priorities lie?

In her latest case, Dutch detective Lotte Meerman finds herself faced with a moral dilemma - does she investigate the murder of a suspected drug dealer ... or does she stay silent to ensure that another man, responsible for the drug-related deaths of six tourists in Amsterdam, is successfully convicted?

Drinking outside a canalside 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. And as Lotte starts to investigate Mazur's death she keeps finding facts that potentially link him to the case of the dead tourists - but soon realises that the head of the team investigating their murders is trying to bury the information just as quickly as she unearths it.

Lotte saw the victim in the bar moments before he was killed, and he was with a woman who passed him a photo of a child. She is now convinced that his death wasn't a revenge-killing over drugs after all... but she has to 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.

About this title

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.

Review:

. . . 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

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

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

An impressive debut . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure

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

Amsterdam is beautifully captured, and Meerman is an engaging if conflicted character who is becoming more interesting with each book in this series.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Constable
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1472126254
• ISBN 13: 9781472126252
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336