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De Cock en het masker van de dood by A.C. Baantjer

A woman vanishes from a hospital, and three more turn out to be missing. De Cock follows the trail of these disappearances.

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De Cock en de dode minnaars by A.C. Baantjer

While guarding a millionaire's art treasures, De Cock and Vledder are called to the murder of a young man chained to a radiator. That same night a valuable silver jug is stolen from the exhibition.

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De Cock en moord op de Bloedberg by A.C. Baantjer

A funeral in Amsterdam for a criminal killed in Antwerp opens an international case. De Cock spots a mourner he knows has been dead for two years.

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De Cock en moord op termijn by A.C. Baantjer

What looks like a narcotics matter turns into a string of sinister murders. De Cock and Vledder are pulled deeper into a case than ever before.

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The Affair by Lee Child

The Affair revisits 1997, showing Reacher’s exit from the Army, sent undercover to Mississippi to investigate murders near a base hiding dark secrets.

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De Cock en een variant op moord by A.C. Baantjer

A woman finds her company director dead in his chair, but when she returns the body has vanished. De Cock and Vledder must work out whether she really saw what she thinks she saw.

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De Cock en de dood van een clown by A.C. Baantjer

A clown is found stabbed to death at the foot of the Schreierstoren, and a collection of antique jewels has been stolen. De Cock must work out whether the two crimes are connected.

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De Cock en moord op melodie by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock investigates the murders of two former drug users and the woman who ran their boarding house. Music seems to link the killings, and it draws him to a concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

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The Ares Decision by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Ares Decision, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith goes to Uganda to track a drug that turns ordinary people into killers, with Iran behind the supply.

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De Cock en de ganzen van de dood by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock deals with threatening letters and a woman tied to a wheelchair, while a suspect held for beating an old couple to death may not be the real killer.

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De Cock en de smekende dood by A.C. Baantjer

Two men from the higher circles of Amsterdam are murdered in the flat of a call girl, and the case falls to De Cock.

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De Cock en de moord in extase by A.C. Baantjer

A raid on a cash transport van and the murder of its driver give De Cock and his colleagues a great deal of work.

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De Cock en de moord in seance by A.C. Baantjer

A woman is murdered during a seance, and De Cock has to unmask the killer.

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De Cock en het dodelijk akkoord by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock helps a friend whose daughter is suspected of murder, but he is soon caught up in a dark plot himself.

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De Cock en de broeders van de zachte dood by A.C. Baantjer

A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.

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De Cock en de naakte juffer by A.C. Baantjer

A boy of about eight brings a death notice addressed to De Cock to the Warmoesstraat station, and the funeral is the start of a puzzling murder case.

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De Cock en de dansende dood by A.C. Baantjer

A De Cock mystery that opens with a short piece by A.C. Baantjer on death in crime fiction.

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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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