{"product_id":"death-on-the-canal","title":"Death On The Canal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''. . . a novel brilliantly evoking the isolation of a woman with an unbearable weight on her conscience'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere do your loyalties lie? With the truth or with your colleagues?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrinking outside a canal-side bar on a perfect summer''s evening, Lotte is witness to the fatal stabbing of Piotr Mazur, a Polish security guard working in one of the city''s department stores. As Lotte starts to investigate Mazur''s death, all the facts point to him being a small-time drug dealer, and his murder is treated as a minor complication in another team''s larger narcotics case. Yet Lotte remains unconvinced; having viewed the man''s ordered, unchaotic flat and spoken to his colleagues, she can''t help but believe he was being set up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in the bar, moments before Piotr was killed, Lotte saw a woman pass him a photo of a child. Shebecomes convinced that his death wasn''t a revenge-killing over drugs at all, and has to now think carefully about what to do for the best, especially as key evidence in Mazur''s murder comes from someone she knows she cannot trust. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Anja de Jager\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eAn absorbing read with the smack of reality\u003ci\u003e'' Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The book succeeds as a portrait of both a city and, in its heroine, a delightfully dysfunctional personality''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Express\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Impressive . . . De Jager is as good on dodgy family relations as  she is on police procedure''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e''Detective Lotte Meerman is damaged by her past and tortured by the dreadful mistake she''s made at work . . . Amsterdam is the other star here, beautiful and deadly'' Cath Staincliffe\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317515460990,"sku":"NW9781472126276","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472126276.jpg?v=1778251670","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/death-on-the-canal","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}