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 neigh...

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 ...

It is New Year's Eve and De Cock is enjoying a relaxed night with family and friends when there is an unexpected visitor. At his front door stands a scruffy looking man with a straggly beard who tells De Cock that two young men are out to murder him.

De Cock suspects he is one of Amsterdam's deranged people who live on the street, and he directs the man to the police station.

A few days later the man is found dead on a bench on the Noordermarkt square. He was killed. His name appears to have ...

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 be...

Op oudejaarsavond wordt De Cock gestoord door onverwacht bezoek. Op zijn stoep staat een haveloze man met een woeste baard die zegt dat hij zal worden vermoord door twee jonge gasten. De Cock vermoedt dat hij te maken heeft met een verwarde geest en verwijst hem door naar het politiebureau.

Een paar dagen later wordt de man dood aangetroffen op een bankje op de Noordermarkt.

Vermoord. Hij blijkt Joop Koedam te zijn, een oude inbreker die De Cock ooit nog heeft gekend. Even later wordt er een ...

Deel 5 in de Kitt Hartley-serie. Een seriemoordenaar is actief in Yorkshire en heeft in drie maanden tijd drie slachtoffers geëist. Elf dagen voor elke moord wordt een grote paarse V op de voordeur van het huis van het slachtoffer geschilderd. De slachtoffers, die allemaal enige connectie hebben met het occulte, worden gevonden zonder bloed, maar met twee rode vlekken op hun nek.

Wanneer Ruby Barnett op een avond thuiskomt en een grote paarse V op haar voordeur vindt, vermoedt ze dat zij he...

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…

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 aro...

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 wo...

DeKok takes on Igor Stablinsky, a man accused of bludgeoning a wealthy old man and his wife. To DeKok’s unfailing eye the killing urge is visibly present in the suspect during questioning, but did he commit this particular crime?

All signs point to one of the few remaining grand estates in Holland. The answer lies within a strange family, suspicions of incest, deadly geese, and a horrifying mansion.