Jacobine Dijkman is internet detective in Nijmegen, a team which is led by Rolf Detering. In 2005 she interviews Goos de Graaf, a student who reports to have met the murderer of his mother. A crime which took place at a campingsite when he was four years old, present under the awning of the tent in which his mother lost her life. Jacobine takes his statement serious after she studied research in the 'US' at what age a minor can remember a violent event. Rolf doesn't want to contradict her, ...

A celebration of the journey that started it all.

During a medieval wedding party at Cleves, the poet Veldeke reads from an unfinished romance. The next day, the manuscript has disappeared from the chest in which it was kept. But what is the point of stealing an unfinished book, and who would do such a thing? Master Henric tries to find out.

At the summer residence of the Metternich family in Bohemia, the governess Franziska is found in a pond, drowned. Was it truly suicide because of an unwanted pregnancy, as the doctor claims and many othe...

Judge Dee is ordered by empress Wu to investigate the murder of an apothecary. The accused is a courtesan who confronts Dee with a mystery that baffles him. It even makes him doubt his own ability to serve in his current position. In another case the judge has to solve a double murder while in the background an unknown and feared official moves silently around. The ensuing tension threatens the harmonious family life of Dee and his wives – and First Lady proves she is more than a match for ...

If you had the option to not feel grief at the death of someone you loved - to remember them but not feel pain at their loss - would you take it?

'A place free of judgement. for a life free of pain'

The Elizabeth Codelle Therapeutic Institute is the world's most exclusive clinic: eye-wateringly expensive and located on a small island off the Welsh coast, it is run by controversial genius Dr Codelle. She takes only one patient at a time, she keeps them away from the outside world while they're...

Scott Bloom is a kindhearted English gentleman who has given up hope of finding true love. He works for the London Times and interviews powerful businessmen, but leaves for Beijing when Jo-Ann Wei, an activist against the one-child policy, asks for help. She has been threatened with death by Evan Mil, a British business tycoon with connections within the Chinese government. In a couple of interviews, Scott discovers that Evan s business empire thrives on the surplus of millions of Chinese men...

A monster creates a monster, right? Wrong!!! Enter female psychologist Rebecca Tawny who has to

confront herself with her dark past to save the life of a child victimized by a hypnotic mad man and

to plead herself free of a murder-charge. Enter billionaire’s daughter Lui Lin Kieferssand – at age

thirteen already kidnapped three times and desperately needs thorough mental help to become sane

and happy again. What begins as a simple courtesy to an old friend leads Rebecca into an

adventurou...

The story of this literary thriller is set against the background of the emigration of a Dutch couple in the 1960s. They set off for the other side of the world virtually unprepared, knowing little about life in Australia. Their first stop is the Bonegilla migrant camp, where they only stay a few weeks. After leaving the camp, they try to make a good life for themselves in Port Augusta by working hard. They do well financially, but their marriage is not happy and after a few years they return...

From Len Pennie, the performance poet sensation, comes an electric debut collection about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving