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The Locked Room at Kasteel Batavia: A Quirijn Leclercq Mystery

The Locked Room at Kasteel Batavia: A Quirijn Leclercq Mystery

Dananjaya, Ciara

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798187706204
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Batavia, 1772. A dead man. A door locked from the inside. And a Company that would rather bury the truth than face it.

When Opperkoopman Bram Voskuijlen is found dead in his own strongroom - the door barred from within by his own trusted hand - the Governor's council has already decided who to blame: an old servant with no one of consequence to speak for him.

Quirijn Leclercq, a sharp-tongued auditor newly arrived from Antwerp, isn't so easily satisfied. As he measures a vent two hands wide, tests a candle's slow burn against an hourglass, and follows a discrepancy through a year of quietly falsified ledgers, he uncovers a conspiracy eleven years in the making, built by a man patient enough to wait, and desperate enough to kill.

With the reluctant help of a garrison captain, a meticulous Chinese trade official, and a colonial officer's wife with sharper instincts than her husband's entire council, Quirijn must prove the impossible: that the locked room was never locked at all, not by any hand that mattered.

Rich with the real history of Kasteel Batavia and colonial Indonesia, THE LOCKED ROOM AT KASTEEL BATAVIA is a fair-play, Christie-style locked-room mystery for readers who love a puzzle they can solve alongside the detective, and a story that never lets its comfortable lies go unchallenged.

Book One of the Quirijn Leclercq Mysteries.

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