The Amsterdam Novels

Amsterdam canal at night

Pieter Vos in Amsterdam

Four novels set in the labyrinthine streets and canals of Amsterdam, featuring the highly individual detective Pieter Vos and his partner Detective Bakker.


The House of Dolls

Pieter Vos · 1

The House of Dolls

Detective Pieter Vos returns to Amsterdam after years of self-imposed exile to investigate the disappearance of a young girl — a case that echoes the unsolved vanishing of his own daughter three years before.

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The Wrong Girl

Pieter Vos · 2

The Wrong Girl

During Amsterdam’s Sinterklaas festival, a child is snatched in broad daylight. Vos and his partner Bakker must navigate the city’s darker corners — trafficking networks, old secrets, and a case connected to the first.

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Little Sister

Pieter Vos · 3

Little Sister

Two teenage girls escape from a care home on the island of Marken. Years earlier two sisters vanished from the same place after a pop group’s photo shoot. Vos is drawn into a labyrinth of memory, music, and murder.

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Sleep Baby Sleep

Pieter Vos · 4

Sleep Baby Sleep

Anne Schrijver is just twenty-two years old. She works in the picturesque Albert Cuyp market where her father has a flower stall. Brimming with personality, she’s always been popular with customers. But then she goes missing, only to be found barely alive tied to a stone angel in a graveyard, surrounded by a ring of fire. Her body contains traces of a drug which connects police to a previous case: the Sleeping Beauty murders.

But Annie seems to have been the lucky one, as a body is found nearby, freshly tattooed with three words: Sleep Baby Sleep.

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