Death on the Canal

‘. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience’ Sunday Times

Where do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your colleagues?

Drinking outside a canal-side bar on a perfect summer’s evening, Lotte
is witness to the fatal stabbing of Piotr Mazur, a Polish security guard
working in one of the city’s department stores. As Lotte starts to
investigate Mazur’s death, all the facts point to him being a small-time
drug dealer, and his murder is treated as a minor complication in
another team’s larger narcotics case. Yet Lotte remains unconvinced;
having viewed the man’s ordered, unchaotic flat and spoken to his
colleagues, she can’t help but believe he was being set up.

And in the bar, moments before Piotr was killed, Lotte saw a woman pass
him a photo of a child. Shebecomes convinced that his death wasn’t a
revenge-killing over drugs at all, and has to now think carefully about
what to do for the best, especially as key evidence in Mazur’s murder
comes from someone she knows she cannot trust.

Praise for Anja de Jager

‘An absorbing read with the smack of reality‘ Daily Mail

‘The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality’
Sunday Express

‘Impressive . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure’
The Times

‘Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the
dreadful mistake she’s made at work . . . Amsterdam is the other star
here, beautiful and deadly’ Cath Staincliffe     ReviewAn impressive debut . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as she is on police procedure― *The Times on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* Amsterdam is beautifully captured, and Meerman is an engaging if conflicted character who is becoming more interesting with each book in this series.― *Daily Mail* . . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience― *Sunday Times on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality― *Sunday Express on A Cold Death in Amsterdam* Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she's made at work . . . Amsterdam in the vicious grip of a bitter winter is the other star here, beautiful and deadly― Cath StaincliffeAbout the Author








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.