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The Silent Woman – A young woman was attacked. She refuses to speak. What is she afraid of?
The second thriller by rising star Samantha Stroombergen, youngest Gouden Strop winner in history.
On a very cold night, a young woman stumbles along the canals of Leiden with a bleeding head wound and no shoes. She is taken to hospital, but refuses to speak of what happened to her. When detective León Coeur and his niece Hannah realise that the injured woman is the fiancé of a well-known politician, things take a turn for the worst.
Author
Samantha Stroombergen studied Dutch and journalism at Leiden University. She works as a copywriter in KLM's Digital Content department and is a reviewer for the popular Dutch book forum Hebban.
Her debut, The White Room, won the yearly Gouden Strop 2019 (The Golden Nugget Thriller Award). Almost 10,000 copies have been sold.
In April 2020 her second thriller, The Silent Woman is published.