Death on the Canal by Anja de Jager - ISBN: 9781472126276
Paperback
A woman, a murder, a secret. Where does loyalty lie?

Death on the Canal

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    30 October 2018

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Summary

’… 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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472126276
ISBN-10:1472126270
Author:Anja de Jager
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:30 October 2018
Weight:236g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 26mm
Series:Lotte Meerman
What They're Saying

Critics Review

… a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience

… 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

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

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

About The Author

Anja de Jager

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.

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