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A free-spirited young woman disappears, and DeKok soon learns her life was darker than it looked. Blackmail, emotional abuse, and a gruesome discovery turn the search into a murder case.

A young man is found stabbed in the dunes near Noordwijk, and the cold trail lands on DeKok's desk. The murder opens into a broader case with connected killings and the shadow of a money-transport robbery.

A woman vanishes from a hospital, and soon DeKok learns she is not the only one. With several women missing and the same eerie facial change mentioned again and again, the case grows deeply unsettling.

A restaurant menu carries what looks like a full confession to an old shooting in Amsterdam. DeKok follows the bizarre clue back to an unsolved killing and a case that is suddenly alive again.

A young woman is found dead in a dark, narrow alley, posed with unsettling care. DeKok and Vledder work a difficult case that depends on patience more than quick certainty.

On Christmas night, a young woman is pulled from an Amsterdam canal, strangled and pregnant. Clues in her handbag point DeKok toward two men and a painful secret.

A double murder in a well-known Amsterdam hotel leaves DeKok with two unlikely leads, a sleepless six-year-old and a respectable accountant. It is an odd, tight puzzle with pressure from every side.

A well-insured man is hauled from the Brouwersgracht, and the wound on his head tells DeKok this was no accident. The dead man had several names, and every new fact creates fresh trouble.

When a kind nurse is murdered, suspicion falls on a young burglar whose fingerprints were found in her home. DeKok looks past the easy answer and uncovers an older, sadder love story beneath the crime.

Two bodies are found in the Keizersgracht, arm in arm and fingers intertwined, as if they drowned together. DeKok refuses to accept the easy explanation and starts pulling apart the eerie scene.

A supposed vagrant found dead beside the Oude Zuiderkerk is claimed by the family of an eccentric baron. DeKok steps into a baffling case of disguise, family tension, and carefully staged murder.

A murdered young woman is shocking enough, but the toddler found hidden in a closet makes the case even stranger. DeKok must uncover both the killer and the child's place in the story.

A student arrested for drunkenness dies in a cell, only for the police to learn he was poisoned. Vledder is in over his head until DeKok returns and starts asking the right questions.

An eight-year-old boy brings DeKok a funeral notice addressed to him, and the burial opens the door to a murky murder case. Small details, and one child's quiet role, keep the mystery moving.

A seance in a blind medium's house ends in murder, leaving DeKok to investigate a room full of nerves, secrets, and performance. It is a neat setup for one of his stranger cases.

DeKok tries to help a friend whose daughter is suspected of murder, but the favor turns into something much larger. Before long he is pulled into a dark plot with consequences beyond one arrest.

What first looks like a private scandal widens into blackmail and a growing body count. DeKok and Vledder keep finding new layers as the case shifts under their feet.

The robbery of an armored car ends with a murdered driver and a case that refuses to stay simple. DeKok and his colleagues chase the men behind the heist through a tangle of pressure and deception.

A wealthy banker fears a kidnapping during his grandchild's baptism, so DeKok watches the ceremony closely. Soon the warning letters, two prominent murders, and a string of macabre events begin to connect.

An 18-year-old radio winner arrives hoping to meet the famous DeKok, and instead walks into a murder investigation. A caller claims to have killed someone, but the real problem is finding the missing corpse.

Young women are being killed in identical fashion in first-class train compartments, and none of the obvious motives fit. DeKok faces one of his most baffling pattern cases.

Between Saint Nicholas Day and Christmas, DeKok gets a corpse, blackmail, death threats, and a mysterious woman on a motorcycle. The holiday season does nothing to make this case kinder.

DeKok is investigating the murders of two former junkies and their landlady when music starts to look like the missing link. A concert outing becomes part of a clever search for the killer.

A funeral for a murdered Amsterdam man should be routine, until DeKok spots someone who is supposed to be dead. The trail leads from Amsterdam to Antwerp and into a slick criminal network.

While guarding a display of valuable art, DeKok and Vledder are pulled into the shooting of a young man chained to a radiator. Then a priceless silver vessel disappears, and the case turns toward obsession and collection.

A vanished jewel collection and a clown stabbed by the water seem like separate mysteries at first. DeKok keeps digging until the performances, the theft, and the murder start to line up.

A brutal double killing seems simple once Igor Stablinsky is in custody, but DeKok is not convinced. His doubts lead him to a strange family, a gloomy country house, and a case with a nasty twist.

When a member of a secretive antiquarian society is found murdered with a costly bronze knife in his back, DeKok and Vledder go inside the group. What looks scholarly on the surface hides ritual, rivalry, and plenty of motive.

What begins with a tourist threatened by an infected syringe quickly grows darker when a young woman is found murdered. DeKok is drawn into revenge, fear, and the better-dressed edges of Amsterdam's underworld.

A woman sees the director of an office building dead in his chair, then looks again and finds the body gone. DeKok has to sort illusion from murder before the vanished victim disappears for good.