De Cock en het lijk aan de kerkmuur by A.C. Baantjer
The body of a tramp is found against a church wall, but a doctor finds he was murdered in an unusual way, and the dead man turns out to be a rich baron.
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Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Worth Dying For picks up after 61 Hours, with an injured Reacher in Nebraska confronting a family-run cartel trafficking humans.
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Lucky Luke versus the Pinkertons by Daniel Pennac
Set under President Lincoln, Lucky Luke crosses swords with Allan Pinkerton, the ambitious detective who fancies himself the marshal's successor.
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De Cock en de stervende wandelaar by A.C. Baantjer
A student found dead in a police cell was put there to sleep off the drink, but the post-mortem shows he was poisoned, and De Cock must find out who killed him.
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De Cock en de romance in moord by A.C. Baantjer
A well-liked nurse is murdered and a young burglar is the obvious suspect. De Cock knows the burglar well and does not believe the simple story.
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De Cock en de zorgvuldige moordenaar by A.C. Baantjer
In a dark, narrow Amsterdam alley the body of a young woman is found in a fur coat. De Cock and Vledder face a case that seems impossible to crack.
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De Cock en de ontgoochelde dode by A.C. Baantjer
A man who was insured for a very large sum is pulled dead from an Amsterdam canal. De Cock takes the case and Vledder senses trouble at once.
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De Cock en de treurende kater by A.C. Baantjer
A young man is found stabbed in the dunes near Noordwijk and the local police get nowhere. The case lands on De Cock's desk in Amsterdam.
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61 Hours by Lee Child
61 Hours traps Reacher in a South Dakota blizzard after a bus crash, tasked with protecting a witness from a prison gang and a Mexican cartel.
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De Cock en de dode harlekijn by A.C. Baantjer
A double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel leaves the victims looking like grim harlequins. De Cock has only two witnesses to go on.
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De Cock en het sombere naakt by A.C. Baantjer
A young woman is reported missing by her sister, and De Cock fears she is already dead. The more he learns about her, the darker her life looks.
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The Arctic Event by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Arctic Event, co-authored with James H. Cobb, Covert-One's Jon Smith leads a team to a crashed Soviet bomber in the Arctic that holds a deadly biological cargo.
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De Cock en de moord op Anna Bentveld by A.C. Baantjer
A sex worker is murdered in Amsterdam and suspicion lands on a young burglar. De Cock plays only a small part while a colleague leads the case.
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De Cock en het lijk in de kerstnacht by A.C. Baantjer
On Christmas night a young woman's body is pulled from an Amsterdam canal. The dead woman was strangled and pregnant, and De Cock wants to close the case fast.
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De Cock en de wurger op zondag by A.C. Baantjer
Detective De Cock is called back from his holiday to take over a stalled murder case. A sex worker has been killed and the trail has gone cold.
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The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling espionage novel, The Cobra, the U.S. President calls upon Paul Devereaux, a retired CIA operative known as “The Cobra,” to take down the global cocaine trade.
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Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling novel, Avenger, Calvin Dexter, a former Vietnam War tunnel rat turned lawyer and vigilante, embarks on a personal quest to hunt down Zoran Zilic, a Serbian war criminal responsible for a horrific murder.
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De Cock en een strop voor Bobby by A.C. Baantjer
A young detective cannot let go of a sex worker's death and starts to dig into the reasons behind it. This is the first book in the long De Cock series.
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Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
In Gone Tomorrow, Reacher spots a potential suicide bomber on a New York subway, triggering a hunt for Al-Qaeda connections and a corrupt politician.
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The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling sequel to Gaston Leroux’s classic, The Phantom of the Opera, the mysterious Erik, the Phantom, escapes Paris and starts a new life in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
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Asterix and Obelix's Birthday by Albert Uderzo
It is the thirty-fourth book in the Asterix series. The village celebrates fifty years of Asterix with a golden book of memories and adventures.
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The Moscow Vector by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Moscow Vector, co-authored with Patrick Larkin, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts a deadly virus killing Russian leaders before a hardliner can seize the Kremlin.
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol follows Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon as he races through Washington, D.C. to save his mentor from a mysterious attacker seeking a Masonic secret.
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Icon by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s Icon, a political thriller set in a chaotic 1999 Russia, a group of Western powerbrokers stumbles upon a dangerous plot.
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The Lazarus Vendetta by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Lazarus Vendetta, co-authored with Patrick Larkin, Covert-One's Jon Smith investigates a deadly attack on a nanotech laboratory linked to the shadowy Lazarus Movement.
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