De Cock en moord à la carte by A.C. Baantjer
A restaurant menu carries a full written confession to a murder, and De Cock recalls an old killing he never solved.
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The Janson Command by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command, co-authored with Paul Garrison, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid rescue a doctor in West Africa and uncover an oil cartel pulling the strings.
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De Cock en de bloedwraak by A.C. Baantjer
A young man threatens a tourist with an infected needle, and the arrest pulls De Cock into a murder tied to the fear of AIDS.
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De Cock en moord eerste klasse by A.C. Baantjer
A run of nearly identical murders of young women in the first-class compartments of trains leaves De Cock without a motive or a suspect.
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Quiet by Susan Cain
Susan Cain challenges the prevailing notion that extroversion is the sole determinant of success.
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De Cock en een dodelijke dreiging by A.C. Baantjer
In the weeks before Christmas, De Cock meets his hardest murder cases. A find on the Keizersgracht grows into something far larger than he expected.
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De Cock en moord in brons by A.C. Baantjer
A respected member of an antiquarian society is found murdered under the Muiderpoort with a rare bronze knife in his back. De Cock and Vledder enter the closed world of the society to find the killer.
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De Cock en het lijk op retour by A.C. Baantjer
On the day an eighteen-year-old fan comes to meet him, De Cock and Vledder must search for a missing body rather than a missing killer.
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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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