Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After the Silence | 2014 | Jake Woodhouse | Buy |
| 2 | Into the Night | 2015 | Jake Woodhouse | Buy |
| 3 | Before the Dawn | 2017 | Jake Woodhouse | Buy |
| 4 | The Copycat | 2019 | Jake Woodhouse | N/A |
The Inspector Rykel Amsterdam Quartet follows Dutch homicide detective Jaap Rykel through four cases that test his skills, his ethics, and his sanity. Beginning with After the Silence in 2014, the series drops readers into an Amsterdam that tourists never see — a city of violence, corruption, and secrets hidden behind respectable facades.
Each book raises the stakes for Rykel personally while presenting a new central mystery. Into the Night and Before the Dawn deepen the series mythology, and The Copycat brings the quartet to its conclusion. Jake Woodhouse writes Amsterdam the way Nordic noir writers capture Stockholm or Copenhagen — as a character in its own right, beautiful on the surface and dangerous underneath.