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Death at the Orange Locks

Anja de Jager

Death at the Orange Locks

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November 23, 2021
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I found the plot absorbing as the author pulls the reader one way and then another. The novel revolves around Patrick and his character and the more Lotte digs the less she likes. Of course, this offers several suspects and motives, including Arjen, but the author saves the best for last and pulls a big surprise as a solution. It is an easy book to read with an inviting style and clear writing. The relationships between the characters are complicated, but never difficult to understand, due to the prose. Death at the Orange Locks is a good read that I have no hesitation in recommending.
Goodreads reviewer - ET

Synopsis

Book 6: Lotte Meerman

Keeping it in the family...

After her painful divorce four years ago, Lotte Meerman has kept well away from Arjen, her ex-husband, and his new wife Nadia. So when they both visit her at central Amsterdam's police station to report Nadia's father missing, Lotte is shocked - but hides it well.

Then two days later a dog walker reports the discovery of a body near the Orange Locks, built to keep the sea out of Amsterdam, and the missing man is identified as Nadia's father. Lotte wants to stay away from the investigation but his widow, Margreet, keeps searching her out as she has no idea it was her daughter who was pivotal in the marriage break-up. She wrongly identifies Lotte as a friend and tells her that Patrick had been a great husband and father, and a successful businessman. But when Lotte digs into Patrick's past, she discovers instead a failing company and a man with a history of making unwanted sexual advances to his female employees.

Margreet is unaware of any of this. And the more Lotte investigates the dead man's past, the more she finds to suggest that her ex-husband is somehow involved in his death...

Product Information

Number of pages
336
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
#ISBN
Number of pages
9781472130464
Date of Publication
November 23, 2021
Format
Paperback
Weight
234
g
Dimensions
12.7
x
19.6
x
2.5
cm

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I thoroughly enjoyed Death at the Orange Locks, a smashing police procedural with the added lure of complicated personal relationships. Told from Lotte’s point of view the reader is privy to her thoughts, actions and motives as well as being drawn into Lotte’s world. She’s smart and logical and deals with life's lemons full on. I found the plot absorbing, the author saving the best for last with a big surprise towards the end. I like this author's clear style and though the players' private lives are complex, it's not difficult to follow. I have no hesitation in recommending Death at the Orange Locks.
Goodreads reviewer - B
Succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality.
Sunday Express

About the author

Anja de Jager

Anja de Jager is a London-based native Dutch speaker who writes in English. She draws inspiration from cases that her father, a retired police detective, worked on in the Netherlands. Anja worked in the City for twenty years but is now a full-time writer. She is currently working on the next Lotte Meerman novel.

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