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Cargando... A Cold Case in Amsterdam Centralpor Anja De Jager
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Pertenece a las seriesLotte Meerman (2)
Having been shot in the shoulder in the line of duty, Dutch police detective Lotte Meerman returns to work after four months of painful recovery - yet not all her colleagues are happy to see her.But department politics take a backseat when Lotte is called to investigate a worker's fall from the roof on a building site in the centre of Amsterdam. Frank Stempel's tragic accident becomes suspicious when Tessa, his widow, discovers human bones in her husband's left-luggage locker at Amsterdam Central. To Lotte, this changes the course of her investigation from fatal accident to potential murder.When forensics discover the skeleton dates back to the Second World War, the rest of the team are convinced that Lotte is wasting everybody's time by insisting this somehow ties in with Frank's death, but then it is discovered that some of the bones are less than a decade old ... and although vindicated for pursuing the cold case, Lotte finds that the investigation takes a dark and sinister turn, linking an old war crime to events in the much more recent past. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The novel opens with two detectives attending the scene of death of a painter and decorator who has fallen seven floors from a building that he and his team were working on. No-one else was around at the time, and it is unclear either why he was on the seventh floor, or how he came to fall. In the initial absence of any evidence to the contrary, the first detective attending the scene is inclined to write it off as a simple workplace accident. His colleague, Detective Lotte Meerman, who has only recently returned to duty after having been shot, and then subjected to an internal investigation, is less convinced.
Among the dead man’s effects is a key to a left luggage locker at Amsterdam Centraal railway station. When this locker is opened by his widow, she finds that it contains a human skeleton. Subsequent forensic investigation shows that the skull dates back to the Second World War. Some of the bones are less old, however, and it becomes apparent that, rather than being one intact skeleton, there are bones from two different bodies.
Detective Meerman is persistent in the face of opposition from her colleagues, and at best ambivalence from her line manager. She is, however, convinced that there is something deeply wrong here, and that the painter’s death is not the un fortunate accident that everyone else assumes.
The plot is well constructed and original, and Detective Meerman is a generally empathetic character, Unfortunately, like most fictional detectives these days, she is liberally strewn with ‘ussies’, both medical, emotional and psychological. While that may, no doubt, contribute to overall verisimilitude, in this case I found that the backstory predominated to such an extent that they detracted significantly from my enjoyment of the novel. (