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Deadly Secrets: The Posthumus Trilogy Book 3 (Posthumus Mystery) Paperback – 23 Feb. 2017
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The third in the atmospheric Amsterdam-set crime series, which combines the city's old-world charm with contemporary issues of corruption, immigration and crime.
Pieter Posthumus wouldn't live anywhere but Amsterdam... though the Earth 2050 conference, with its attendant crowds, has left him feeling somewhat under siege. At least his work at the Lonely Funerals team is quiet.
Then one of the delegates is attacked. Posthumus agrees to look into the case, sparking memories of his own time as a student radical. Amsterdam has always attracted people with fierce views... but is someone willing to kill for their principles? Or was the attack much more personal?
Posthumus must contend with family secrets, political machinations and international conspiracies in a bid to uncover the truth.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMulholland Books
- Publication date23 Feb. 2017
- Dimensions13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-101444787357
- ISBN-13978-1444787351
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The main character is a very appealing, convincing and enthralling creation with a truly bizarre occupation...As with Morse, the city where the action takes place becomes one of the main characters...a compelling story that leaves you wanting to hear more about Pieter's work and his life - and how the city copes with its marvellous mix of eccentrics and dangers. ― We Love This Book
One of the best thrillers you will read this season. It is a page-turner full of suspense and surprising twists and turns...Phenomena like home-grown terrorism make this novel just that much more exciting. Once I started reading I could not put it down. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Very engaging...Posthumus holds enormous literary appeal. ― Readings Australia
A delicious writing style makes Lonely Graves an outstanding debut. ― Algemeen Dagblad
No typical thriller...Posthumus is a find! ― Vrij Nederland
An atmospheric and glorious Amsterdam crime story. ― JAN
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- Publisher : Mulholland Books; Reprint edition (23 Feb. 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1444787357
- ISBN-13 : 978-1444787351
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 2,153,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2021Thoroughly enjoyed all the books in this trilogy. Although they are good stand alone books they are best read in order. I hope the author writes some more of these
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2016A fantastic end to this trilogy, full of twists and turns but still able to tie together the loose ends from all of the books so far. I just hope that the trilogy goes further as it definitely shouldn't end here !
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2016Deadly Secrets is the third in a trilogy of crime novels set in Amsterdam and featuring the unusual and engaging sleuth Pieter Posthumus. He is not your usual hard-bitten crime novel detective. Instead, Posthumus, or PP, as he is known to his friends in De Dolle Hond bar he frequents, works for the city's Lonely Funerals team that deals with those who die alone and unknown. Being of a curious, analytical and thorough turn of mind, PP likes to piece together the fragments found with the deceased to create a credible picture of their life and character before they are sent off for burial.
But every now and then the pieces don't quite add up. In the first of the series, Lonely Graves, it was the circumstances of a young Moroccan immigrant found floating in a canal. In Lost Lives, it is murdered rent boy from the Red Light district. In Deadly Secrets, a junkie dies in an alley in possession of an expensive camel hair coat. The ever diligent PP finds a business card in the pocket linking the coat to an American environmentalist in town for a major climate change conference, who turns up in hospital on life support. This leads to PP crossing paths with the young detective De Boer investigating the mysterious circumstances of the environmentalists injuries. It also leads him back into the world he inhabited as a student radical.
PP has the support of his usual crew of likeable eccentrics, including De Dolle Hond owner Anna and Cornelius, the poet hired by the Lonely Funerals team to compose elegies for the deceased (a practice Amsterdam's real life Lonely Funerals department follows). As the urgency of solving the mystery grows, PP again has to set aside his plans for indulging his passion for cooking, although we get glimpses of his imaginative and tasty-sounding recipes.
As with the other novels, Amsterdam is one of the major characters as the plot plays out between its fancy hotels and conference venues and grittier back streets and canals. Deadly Secrets grips from the start, and holds the attention as PP untangles the threads that link junkie, environmentalist, Amsterdam underworld and political lobbyists. An accomplished and satisfying finale to the trilogy. More please.