Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. A woman finds a dead body in an office – but when she returns to the room, the body has gone... As has been her habit since the death of her husband, Mrs. Van Haesbergen does nightly rounds in the large office building where she resides. Her husband had been the building superintendent, and an apartment on the top floor came with the job. One night she encounters the managing director in the boardroom, sitting in his chair at the head of the table. She hastily walks up to him, and to her horror, she finds him dead. She rushes up to her apartment to call someone, but who? Deciding it better to return to the boardroom to determine what exactly happened, she finds the dead man gone... Soon after she learns that the director is on holiday in the Bahamas. With unbearable visions of him dead in the boardroom, she turns to Inspector DeKok for help.

Join inspector DeKok in his investigations in the DeKok series by Dutch bestselling author Baantjer. Murder of an Antwerp criminal with Amsterdam roots means DeKok has to solve an international crime. 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 neighborhood in Antwerp, to continue his enquiries.

A woman has disappeared without a trace from Hospital South in Amsterdam. Upon investigation, three more women seem to have disappeared in the same mysterious way. For the first time in his career, a hospital means more to DeKok than a place where wounded witnesses and criminals are interrogated.

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