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A.C. Baantjer

Inspector DeKok finds himself in the midst of outwardly disparate motives and personalities surrounding the deaths of two reformed junkies and their landlady, a former prostitute. However, there is one connection in the madness, because music threads its way among and around the list of suspects and victims. 
DeKok discovers that the trail leading to this melodious murderer is as long as a symphonic masterpiece.

Geoffrey Breton

De Fontein Romans & Spanning

Inspector DeKok

DeKok and Murder by Melody

Baantjer

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. When Roxanne Degenaar, pillar of the community, is found dead, inspector DeKok is on the case. 

DEKOK AND THE KISS OF DEATH is a book in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. This series, featuring inspector DeKok, is set in Amsterdam, around the Warmoes Street police station. 

When Roxanne Degenaar is found murdered, inspector DeKok is stumped. Who would have reason to kill Roxanne, well-known and loved in Amsterdam as she was? The lady was a politician with a seat on the city council, she volunteered for the Food Bank, and she was an active member of the community in her neighbourhood. As a city councillor, she represented the Great Amsterdam party, or ‘Gram’ as it was better known – a pet name both she and the party shared. 

 
DeKok’s investigation soon focusses on Matthias, Roxanne’s husband, who is a very successful entrepreneur. His rise from rags to riches was nothing short of meteoric, but he turns out to be well-connected in Amsterdam’s criminal underworld. Matthias’ chain of tanning parlours are perfect for money laundering. Was it her own political wheeling and dealing that led to her death? Or did she fall victim to her husband’s secret life…?

DeKok and the Kiss of Death

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. A woman finds a dead body in an office – but when she returns to the room, the body has gone…

As has been her habit since the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Haesbergen does nightly rounds in the large office building where she resides. Her husband had been the building superintendent, and an apartment on the top floor came with the job.

One night she encounters the managing director in the boardroom, sitting in his chair at the head of the table. She hastily walks up to him, and to her horror, she finds him dead. She rushes up to her apartment to call someone, but who? Deciding it better to return to the boardroom to determine what exactly happened, she finds the dead man gone…

Soon after she learns that the director is on holiday in the Bahamas. With unbearable visions of him dead in the boardroom, she turns to Inspector DeKok for help.

DeKok and Variations on Murder

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. DeKok is faced with a double murder, and his only leads are two unlikely witnesses…

Inspector DeKok is faced with a grotesque double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel. He finds the murder victims looking like macabre wooden harlequins. Inspector DeKok must unravel clues from two unexpected characters: a six-year-old girl who has trouble sleeping, and a respected accountant who seeks DeKok’s advice on committing the perfect crime. 

But when DeKok meets with the murderer, he tries everything possible to prevent the man from giving himself up to the police…

DeKok and the Dead Harlequin

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. Inspectors DeKok and Vledder become involved in a case where death seems almost commonplace...

Although at first it seemed to be a case for the narcotics division, this latest crime soon evolves into a series of sinister murders, which seem almost impossible to solve. Never before have inspectors DeKok and Vledder been so involved in a case where murder, drug smuggling, and child prostitution are almost daily occurrences.

Blackmail enters the picture, and meanwhile bodies continue to be found. In the past even a single murder used to dominate the front pages of the newspapers for weeks, but now they hardly get attention. Death seems to have become commonplace, but never for DeKok…

DeKok and Murder by Installment

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. Murder of an Antwerp criminal with Amsterdam roots means DeKok has to solve an international crime.

At the request of the Belgian police, Inspectors DeKok and Vledder attend the funeral of a murder victim. The body was fished out of Antwerp’s Scheldt River, but brought back to Amsterdam to be laid to rest there. During the service DeKok spies the face of a man long known to be dead.

Further bodies are discovered, apparently they too were poisoned and dumped in the river. DeKok is forced to venture from his beloved Amsterdam and travel to Bloedberg (“Blood Mountain”), a notorious neighborhood in Antwerp, to continue his enquiries.

DeKok and Murder on Blood Mountain

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. A young woman has gone missing, but she was hiding her own share of secrets…

A beautiful, free-spirited young woman has gone missing, and those closest to her fear for her life. Inspector DeKok is soon called upon to find out her whereabouts. It quickly becomes clear that this Nanette may have harbored a dark side, one that embraced blackmail, emotional cruelty, and a wicked selfishness. 

The more DeKok learns of the beguiling Nanette, the more he feels that he is on the trail of a dead woman. DeKok’s suspicions are confirmed with a phone call: the dismembered body of a young woman has been found at the city dump. Now DeKok has to find the bloodied hands responsible for the somber-eyed woman’s murder.

DeKok and the Somber Nude

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. Women are disappearing from a hospital without a trace. But without a body, does DeKok have a case?

Women are checking in to Slotervaart Hospital, but not checking out. According to hospital files, they were never even there. Inspectors DeKok and Vledder are called upon to investigate this alarming disappearing act.

Eerily, the people closest to these vanishing women all comment on a change in their faces: they have become listless, fatigued, and seemingly wear a ‘mask of death’. All indications point to foul play, but the bodies have yet to turn up. 

DeKok is stumped as to how these women are connected, and why an esteemed hospital is playing cover-up…

DeKok and the Mask of Death

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. A clown is found dead, but what does his murder have to do with an antique jewel collection?

Without the slightest trace, an antique jewel collection disappears from a house along one of the great canals in Amsterdam. Inspector DeKok feels compelled to help the victim of the theft, unknowingly signing up for a homicide case, as well.

Soon after commencing his investigation into the robbery, DeKok and his partner Vledder are called to the foot of The Criers’ Tower. A clown lies dead along the canal with a large, shining knife protruding from his back, creating a blossom of blood around the murder weapon. 

After interviewing the clown’s variety troupe members, DeKok stumbles upon a connection between the two crimes…

DeKok and the Death of a Clown

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. DeKok is faced with a gruesome kind of collector, who covets both objects and people…

Inspector DeKok and his partner Vledder are ordered to protect the eccentric Manfred Nettelhorst’s art treasures, exhibited during a special showing in Amsterdam. But before the exhibition has come to a close, the two detectives are called away to a nearby apartment building to investigate the murder of a man handcuffed to a radiator, shot execution style. That same night, an exquisite silver ewer is stolen from the exhibition.

Following the trail, DeKok stumbles across an invisible line between beauty and perfection, relating to the collection of both objects and people...